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Looking for a long book to live inside for a month

Door-stoppers worth the commitment. Bring a bookmark.
  1. Anna Karenina — Tolstoy 864 pp
    The marriage novel. Levin's farm chapters land.
  2. Middlemarch — George Eliot 880 pp
    Provincial English life. Smarter than it looks.
  3. Infinite Jest — David Foster Wallace 1079 pp
    Tennis academy, halfway house, footnotes.
  4. The Brothers Karamazov — Dostoevsky 796 pp
    Three brothers, one murder, lots of God.
  5. Cloud Atlas — David Mitchell 509 pp
    Six interlocking stories across centuries.
  6. Pillars of the Earth — Ken Follett 1077 pp
    Cathedral builders. Surprisingly readable.
  7. The Goldfinch — Donna Tartt 771 pp
    A painting, a boy, a long fall.
  8. A Suitable Boy — Vikram Seth 1349 pp
    1950s India. Marriage politics.
  9. The Count of Monte Cristo 1276 pp
    Revenge story. Reads fast despite the length.
  10. 11/22/63 — Stephen King 849 pp
    Time travel, Texas, Kennedy.