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Leaving aside books like The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 1 (2,624 pages) and Volume 2 (also 2,624 pages), I suppose the longest books I've ever read are mostly casebooks I read in law school like Cases and Materials on Evidence by John Kaplan (1,604 pages) and Constitutional Law by Geoffrey R. Stone (1,600 pages). Or if I wanted to pick something that was mostly fiction I could select a work like Bulfinch's Mythology (1,040 pages)
Those probably aren't very good choices though, because they are more or less textbooks, which I don't think is what the question was intended to find out. The longest single volume I've read that would be classified as fiction would be Dragonlance: The Annotated Chronicles by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman (1,312 pages), but that is actually three books compiled together, so it doesn't really count. As a single work, I suppose the longest book I've read would be the history Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson (928 pages), which is obviously nonfiction. The longest work of fiction that I have read is Dhalgren (read review) by Samuel R. Delany (896 pages - for some reason, it always seems to come back to Delany for me).
I have read several books over six hundred pages long, too many to list them all. In addition to Dhalgren, my favorite "long" books include American Gods by Neil Gaiman, Brightness Reef and Earth, both by David Brin, Footfall and Lucifer's Hammer both coauthored by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, Playgrounds of the Mind also by Larry Niven, A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin (read review), The Once and Future King by T.H. White, and Time Enough for Love by Robert A. Heinlein.
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It seems like A Game of Thrones is on everyone's list this week. I haven't heard of it before, but I'll be sure to check it out! Have a great Friday :)
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Some of my favorite long books!
ReplyDeleteGeorge R.R. Martin totally topped my list of longest read book.
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Hopping through. We used Norton in my 11th grade English class. We called it the insomniac's dream.
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@Jessica: A Game of Thrones is worth reading, here is my review of the book.
ReplyDelete@Julia Rachel Barrett: Mine too! What a coincidence!
ReplyDeleteVanya D.: Martin does write long books, doesn't he?
ReplyDelete@Alison Can Read: I liked the Norton Anthologies when I read them as an undergraduate. They are incredibly long though.
ReplyDelete@Maeva: I have read The Lord of the Rings in a couple different forms, both as a three volume set and with all three books bound in a single cover. I never regarded them as a single work, but if you do, then they would be one of the longer books I have read.
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