books / long
Looking for a long book to live inside for a month
Door-stoppers worth the commitment. Bring a bookmark.
- Anna Karenina — Tolstoy 864 ppThe marriage novel. Levin's farm chapters land.
- Middlemarch — George Eliot 880 ppProvincial English life. Smarter than it looks.
- Infinite Jest — David Foster Wallace 1079 ppTennis academy, halfway house, footnotes.
- The Brothers Karamazov — Dostoevsky 796 ppThree brothers, one murder, lots of God.
- Cloud Atlas — David Mitchell 509 ppSix interlocking stories across centuries.
- Pillars of the Earth — Ken Follett 1077 ppCathedral builders. Surprisingly readable.
- The Goldfinch — Donna Tartt 771 ppA painting, a boy, a long fall.
- A Suitable Boy — Vikram Seth 1349 pp1950s India. Marriage politics.
- The Count of Monte Cristo 1276 ppRevenge story. Reads fast despite the length.
- 11/22/63 — Stephen King 849 ppTime travel, Texas, Kennedy.