With all the excitement of the holidays last month, it has taken me since Christmas Eve to finish Winter by Marissa Meyer (I finished it in the wee hours of yesterday morning, and it was everything a Jana could have dreamed of.). Of course, this means I’ve had pretty much no content for my blog. lol. And I swear, I felt guilty that things were so quiet over here while I took three weeks to read one book. But then…
I realized, Winter is the longest book I’ve ever read (824 pages)! So basically this is a huge accomplishment. I usually feel very overwhelmed by big books because they are a major time commitment. They latch onto your emotions and take you away from this world. I’m so glad I was willing to give myself the time to read such a long book. AND it was one I bought! I read it for me, and I rarely take the time to do that.
Anyway, I’m wondering… What’s the longest book you’ve ever read?
The longest book listed on my Goodreads (aside from a couple of literature anthologies) is a self-published book called The Order. Since I read it as an ebook, I didn’t really appreciate the size, and I hated it so much that I didn’t even finish it. So that doesn’t count.
The next longest book seems to have been Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, which doesn’t surprise me at all.
City of Heavenly Fire, which is 725 pages. I will be reading Winter soon so that will be my longest book. City of Heavenly Fire was so good it didn’t even feel like a long read. I finished it in a little over 2 weeks.
For me it’s definitely Order of the Phoenix in the Harry Potter series. My edition (adult UK editions) is almost 1000 pages long (956 I believe from the top of my head) and it’s a brick. (I guess I could say Lord of the Rings too, if you consider it one book, which is definitely over 1000 pages)! XD
Order of the Phoenix or Gone With the Wind for me. Order is nearly 10000, my version of Gone With the Wind was 1500, but I have seen versions shorter (with itty bitty print).
It looks like Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is my longest read (based on Goodreads)! Not surprising, though I do believe I might actually be reading a few books this year that are a little longer. Meep.
Harry Potter is a popular answer, it seems! I’ve still only read the first book in the series! I’m SO wanting to continue, but time… lol. Which long books are you planning to read this year?
I’m with ya on that Jana! I have only read the first book but I want to read the entire series so bad! I am hoping to do that this year! :)
According Goodreads, mine is The Count of Monte Cristo. And I don’t regret a single page. It was an exciting, thrilling book that surprised me because I was thinking “an old classic probably nicely written but outdated”.
I need to read that! My goal is to try and read more classics, and this one has always intrigued me.
I just finished Winter a few days ago and it was SO good, omg!! It’s not the longest book I’ve read, though. That’d have to go to “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” (870 pages)!
I think the longest book I’ve ever read was The Lord of the Rings. I found an old bind-up in the basement when I was in high school and worked my way though the 1000+ pages over the course of the year. (Does that count? It was originally published as three books, but I read it as one, and Tolkien wrote it as a single piece…)
Anna Karenina probably :)
To my utter surprise the longest book I’ve read is Breaking Dawn at 756 pages.
The longest book I’ve read is the first installment of Game of Thrones which is 835 pages. I’m pretty sure I read a book that’s over 1,000 but I could be wrong.
I picked Winter for one of my recent RAT reads (just finished yesterday too) and I was just thinking about this. I think my longest read would be David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. It’s actually one of my all-time favorite classics and is over 900 pages, I believe. I think it’s interesting that page numbers don’t necessarily mean I’ll like a book more or less. I like them all lengths, but longer ones definitely take more time commitment. :)
I’m not sure, since I don’t keep track. Not counting the usual trilogies (LOTR, etc), the longest one may have been “An Instance of the Fingerpost,” by Iain Pears, at 704 pages. I love his writing, with the exception of “A Dream of Scipio.”
Gone With the Wind! About a thousand pages. I didn’t really think it was worth it though; better to watch the movie as it takes much less time! ;)
Hmm.. I think the longest one I have read was Breaking Dawn! OY. haha
Let’s see, according to Goodreads Don Quixote is the longest with 982 pages but that was for college and we didn’t read the entire thing…so I’m not going to count that. So, then my longest read is…Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer with 756 pages with Queen of Shadows as a second with 648 pages.
:)
Mine would be Les Miserables at 1463 page than Anne Rice’s The Witching Hour at 1207.
I think the longest book I have read is Gone with the Wind, which is just over a 1000 pages, and I have read it multiple times. It is definitely one of my top 5 favorite books.
I think it would be A Storm of Swords (book three in the Game of Thrones series). I have the UK version, which split the book into two physical books, so it has to be the longest book I’ve ever read!
This is an interesting question! According to my Goodreads it’s Cryptonomicon with 1152 pages, followed by The Dark Tower with 1050 pages. I read quite a lot of 500+ pages books, but apparently some of my favorites are all 700+ pages books. I never even realized…