I am looking for long novels, or long compelling nonfiction. I want a list of books 500+ pages to read for next year. I’ve read lonesome dove and the stand by Stephen king is on the list. I don’t have many preferences but I dislike most high fantasy. SJM? Not really my jam. Loved Harry Potter and still reread those. Smut is also not really my thing.
TIA
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*Adolf Hitler: The Definitive Biography* by John Toland: 1,036 pages.
*The Civil War: A Narrative* (three volumes) by Shelby Foote: 2,968-pages.
*The Third Reich Trilogy* by Richard J. Evans: 2,494 pages.
*Don Quixote* by Miguel de Cervantes: 992 pages.
*The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874–1932* by William Manchester: 986 pages.
*The Rising Sun: The Decline & Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-45* by John Toland: 976 pages.
*Ray Parkin’s Wartime Trilogy: Out of the Smoke; Into the Smother; The Sword and the Blossom* by Ray Parkin: 972 pages.
*Snow and Steel: The Battle of the Bulge, 1944-45* by Peter Caddick-Adams: 928 pages.
*Peter the Great: His Life and Work* by Robert Massie: 909 pages.
*Battle Cry of Freedom* by James M. McPherson: 904 pages.
*The Making of the Atomic Bomb* by Richard Rhodes: 886 pages.
*Huey Long: A Biography* by T. Harry Williams: 884 pages.
*Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle* by Richard. Frank: 801 pages.
*Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus* by Samuel Eliot Morison: 671 pages.
I’m currently rereading Sleeping Beauties, a book Stephen King wrote with his son Owen. I really enjoyed it the first time around and am enjoying it this time. There’s a pandemic that causes every woman to go to sleep. And while they sleep they go to another place. One world of women and one of men. With a mysterious stranger who is immune to the disease. It’s 700 pages and I get lost in it.
The Goldfinch by Donna Tart
Long classic novels:
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Crime and Punishment; the Brothers Karamazov
– Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace
– Alexandre Dumas: the Count of Monte Christo
– George Eliot: Middlemarch
Long modern novels:
– Roberto Bolano: 2666
– Umberto Eco: Foucault’s Pendulum
– Sadie Smith: White Teeth
– Tom Wolfe: Bonfire of the Vanities
Long non-fiction:
– Charles Darwin: the Origin of Species
– David Graeber: Debt the First 5000 years
The Thornbirds.
Les Miserables
Sarum
Anything from James Michener.
Robert A. Caro’s multi-volume (4 so far, with the next pending) biography of LBJ runs 500-1,200 pages per book. My favorite is Master of the Senate but they’re all excellent and LBJ is a riveting figure in American political history.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Devil in The White City by Eric Larson
Shogun by James Clavell
The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay
The Once And Future King by T.H White
The Pillars of The Earth by Ken Follet
The Lord Of The Rings by JRR Tolkien
We The Drowned by Carsten Jensen
The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
Dune by Frank Herbert
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
The His Dark Materials trilogy by Phillip Pullman
Hyperion/The Fall Of Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Sussana Clarke
House Of Suns by Alastair Reynolds
Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds
11/22/63 by Stephen King
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoert by David Mitchell
I.T by Stephen King
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstein
Are all 500+ pages and books that I really enjoyed.
Crime and Punishment (psychological,human condition, mostly in one guy’s mind)
East of Eden (generations of few families, biblical themes)
Shogun (adventure, political intrigue, set in feudal japan – historical fiction)
Tai-Pan (adventure, business & politics, set in early Jong Kong)