Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.This weeks topic is the longest books you’ve ever read. The page numbers are based on the editions I have so these may differ from other editions. I’m starting off with the largest book and work my way down from there. Let’s get started.
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The Count of Monte Cristo / Alexandre Dumas / 1462 pages
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War and Peace / Leo Tolstoy / 1358 pages
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The Wise Man’s Fear / book 2 in the Kingkiller Chronicles / Patrick Rothfuss / 994 pages
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Anna Karenina / Leo Tolstoy / 963 pages
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The Mad Ship / book 2 in the Liveship Traders trilogy / Robin Hobb / 906 pages
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Middlemarch / George Eliot / 889 pages
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Mistress of the Empire / book 3 in the Empire trilogy / Raymond Feist and Janny Wurts / 860 pages
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The Wall of Storms / book 2 in the Dandelion Dynasty / Ken Liu / 852 pages
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Queen of Fire / book 3 of the Raven’s Shadow trilogy / Anthony Ryan / 774 pages
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Night Without Stars / book 2 of the Chronicles of the Faller / Peter F. Hamilton / 767 pages
I also have plenty of long books on my TBR, but nothing quite as long as The Count of Monte Cristo. What is the longest book you’ve read? I’d also love to know if you’ve read any of these books too :). I hope you are all having a wonderful day and I will see you next time.
Pippa
Wow those are some seriously long books!
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I heard of a few of these, but have not read any of them.
Side note: Every time I see “The Count of Monte Cristo” a scene from The Shawshank Redemption comes to mind where one of the inmates is attempting to pronounce the author’s name and says it like “dumb ass.” LOL!
Visiting from TTT
https://edb214.blogspot.com/2018/10/top-ten-tuesday-day-early-longest-books.html
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Haha I’ve actually never seen that film but I really need to!
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Those are some serious books! I’m trying to work my way through The Name of the Wind still… it’s good, but I keep getting distracted by other books!
Here is our Top Ten Tuesday. Thank you!
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Wowza! Amazing list. Those are some big books! I really want to read the King Killer Chronicles. Here’s my TTT.
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I definitely recommend it! Hope you enjoy the series 😄
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These are definitely tomes! I’ve only read a couple of these.
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They are pretty big 😄
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Oh my gosh Anna Karenina is hugeee! I’ve been trying to make my way through that this year and still working on it ^_^
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It is huge but well worth the time commitment 😄
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I have not read any of the novels on your TTT post! They look like really good reads. Hopefully one day I’ll be able to get around to reading a few of them!
Here’s a link to my TTT post this week: http://captivatedreader.blogspot.com/2018/10/top-ten-tuesday-longest-books-ive-ever.html
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Middlemarch made my list, too. I’m impressed that I finished it. My attention span usually doesn’t last that long.
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