You must have read One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Márquez, right?
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you could get into some warhammer 40k stuff, it’s absolutely huge.
Hatherence on
Reamde and its sequel The Fall by Neal Stephenson are two **really** long books that follow a family across time. I haven’t read The Fall yet, so I don’t know how much into the future it goes.
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson is a stand alone book and not nearly as long, but it has time skips of thousands of years.
Accelerando by Charles Stross is another stand alone book with time skips, following three generations of one family.
bouquinista_si on
*The Forsyte Saga*! “The three novels which make up The Forsyte Saga chronicle the ebbing social power of the commercial upper-middle class Forsyte family between 1886 and 1920. Galsworthy’s masterly narrative examines not only their fortunes but also the wider developments within society, particularly the changing position of women.” Bonus: the 2002 PBS series is a fantastic production.
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East of eden
Natasharoxy on
One Hundred Years of Solitude is the classic example, as someone has mentioned. Honestly can’t be beat! Although honourable mentions for:
Homegoing – Yaa Gyasi
House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende
The Old Drift – Namwali Serpell
Pachinko – Min Jin Lee
Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
Repulsive-Row5898 on
The Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon.
BernardFerguson1944 on
*The Leopard* [*Il Gattopardo*] by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa.
Fearless-Fart on
What about a Ken Follet book, is that long enough? His books are great.
unlovelyladybartleby on
The Potato Factory trilogy by Bryce Courtenay. It starts with the story of the guy who was the basis for Fagin in Dickens, then goes from London to the penal colony in Tasmania. It’s fictionalized, characters are added, and there’s some debate about how accurate it is. I don’t care, since Ikey Soloman has been dead for 170 years and it’s a great story.
The Potato Factory, Tommo and Hawk, and Soloman’s Song
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The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois by Honoré Fanonne Jeffers
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You must have read One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Márquez, right?
you could get into some warhammer 40k stuff, it’s absolutely huge.
Reamde and its sequel The Fall by Neal Stephenson are two **really** long books that follow a family across time. I haven’t read The Fall yet, so I don’t know how much into the future it goes.
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson is a stand alone book and not nearly as long, but it has time skips of thousands of years.
Accelerando by Charles Stross is another stand alone book with time skips, following three generations of one family.
*The Forsyte Saga*! “The three novels which make up The Forsyte Saga chronicle the ebbing social power of the commercial upper-middle class Forsyte family between 1886 and 1920. Galsworthy’s masterly narrative examines not only their fortunes but also the wider developments within society, particularly the changing position of women.” Bonus: the 2002 PBS series is a fantastic production.
East of eden
One Hundred Years of Solitude is the classic example, as someone has mentioned. Honestly can’t be beat! Although honourable mentions for:
Homegoing – Yaa Gyasi
House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende
The Old Drift – Namwali Serpell
Pachinko – Min Jin Lee
Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
The Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon.
*The Leopard* [*Il Gattopardo*] by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa.
What about a Ken Follet book, is that long enough? His books are great.
The Potato Factory trilogy by Bryce Courtenay. It starts with the story of the guy who was the basis for Fagin in Dickens, then goes from London to the penal colony in Tasmania. It’s fictionalized, characters are added, and there’s some debate about how accurate it is. I don’t care, since Ikey Soloman has been dead for 170 years and it’s a great story.
The Potato Factory, Tommo and Hawk, and Soloman’s Song
The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois by Honoré Fanonne Jeffers
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