These were all five-star reads for me...
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens...544 pages
Possession by A. S. Byatt...555 pages
The Secret History by Donna Tartt...559 pages
Germinal by Émile Zola...592 pages
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry...603 pages
The Gold Bug Variations by Richard Powers...640 pages
Roots by Alex Haley...729 pages
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy...838 pages
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavadra...940 pages
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry...960 pages
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas...1,138 pages
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy...1,392 pages
August 19: Books with a High Page Count (Share those doorstop books!)
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Wow! Those are some page counts! I remember The Count of Monte Cristo topping 1K pages! Spent a good week or so of my summer years ago reading that one!
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After I had taken my photo I realise I should have included Lonesome Dove!
ReplyDeleteRoots was excellent.
ReplyDeleteI had Monte Cristo on my list today too. I can't wait to read it!
ReplyDeleteI've read Great Expectations (not my favorite), Anna Karenina (made me mad that it just stops), and War and Peace (loved it). Here is my TTT: https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2025/08/top-ten-tuesday-high-page-count.html
ReplyDeleteRoots! This is the second time I've seen it on a list and it is a book that I would like to read one day.
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I keep meaning to read Lonesome Dove!
ReplyDeleteI have Lonesome Dove and The Secret History on my list too. :)
ReplyDeleteI like big books and I can not lie! (Didn't you hear that in Donkey's song son from Shrek?) This is a great post to bookmark.
ReplyDeleteIf you loved them, I know I will too. I am adding The Secret History to my TBR right now. I loved The Goldfinch so much.
ReplyDeleteI hear so much good things about Lonesome Dove, I have to push it up my list! I'm also looking forward to reading War and Peace eventually! 😂
ReplyDeleteI've read a few books that were long that I really liked too. Acheron and Styxx by Sherrilyn Kenyon were 2 of the best long books I've ever read.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed Great Expectations, but it has been a long time since I read it.
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Maybe when I retire, I can get to some of these.
ReplyDeleteI've only read five of those and my favorite of the ones I've read was the longest, "War and Peace." It would be followed, in order, by "The God Bug Variations," "The Secret History," "Lonesome Dove," and "Don Quixote." They were all great reads. (I actually read "War And Peace" several times in my youth.)
ReplyDeleteThe Count of Monte Cristo is probably the only classic I've read outside of high school (which was over 30 years ago). I was burned out of the classics over the years, and have all but refused to read them now.
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I haven't read any of these, but many are classics and they intimidate me LOL.
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I have not read any of these. I don't read as many big books as I used to.
ReplyDeleteIf I hadn't limited my picks to fantasy and sci-fi, Roots would definitely have been on my list! I've also read a Dumas novel, but didn't realize it was abridged, so I don't count it. (Hey, I was in middle school.)
ReplyDeleteI read The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt years ago - it was over 800 pages, and i found it agony :=) I didn't get the hype - sadly - or not.
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I'm going to tackle War and Peace in the new year while I am away. I will read a few chapters a day and hopefully get it read by the time I get home. It has been on my TBR for far too long. Nice list Deb.
ReplyDeleteGreat Expectations and War and Peace are perfect for this list. I haven't read either yet. Thanks for sharing and for visiting me today, Deb!
ReplyDeleteI've read LONESOME DOVE twice. It definitely gets long, but I enjoyed it.
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Yes, you are right, we have one in common, War & Peace, but I have actually read 8 of yours.
Great books. I have read Possession and The Secret History, a couple of my all time favourite books.
ReplyDeleteAnna Karenina and Lonesome Dove are on my list to read soon. AK already on my shelves. Don Q, Monte Christo and War and Peace will come later.
I have just decided that I will read some of the classics that I think I "have to read". Although recently I decided just to leave them be. However, many of them are favourite reads by many book lovers, so a chapter a day I guess I could do.
One author I will not read though, is Dickens. I am sorry.
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry...960 pages
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy...1,392 pages
I keep meaning to get round to both Possession and The Secret History! So many books, so little time, ahaha. Good list!
ReplyDeleteI've read the grand total of two of these - Lonesome Dove and Roots. My parents had a Complete Works of Dickens they had gotten at a local supermarket - one book each week for a discounted price, or something like that. I should look that up online.They got many Mark Twain books that way, too. Our supermarkets used to do that with children's encyclopedias, too.
ReplyDeleteThose are definitely chunksters! I've read a number of these, though only a few are favorites. I liked Great Expectations, but there are other Dickens novels that I like better.
ReplyDeleteI read Possession decades ago--shortly after it came out. I remember skimming the poetry :), but liked the overall story.
Germinal was totally amazing. Really blew me away.
Not a fan of The Secret History, but it was an interesting story overall.
Roots was amazing. I read it decades ago and then reread it just a few years ago. So good.
I loved War and Peace, but Anna Karenina left me cold.
I need to reread Lonesome Dove--I almost did this year, but my eyes couldn't handle the trade paperback edition I have, so I need to get another copy.
I really need to read The Count of Monte Cristo--big hole in my classics reading.
Now I am curious about A Fine Balance.
I love this list.
ReplyDeleteI read many of these years ago. I love a good long book. At the moment I am waiting for book 2 of Follett's trilogy Fall of the Giants.
ReplyDeleteFrom your list, I've read A Fine Balance (twice), Anna Karenina, and Lonesome Dove. Lonesome Dove was my favorite of these three! I finally posted my list yesterday, which was fun to put together. Favorite Tomes
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