![]() Some links (including all Amazon links) are affiliate links. I hope you enjoy this collection, and that you’ll share your own favorite long reads in comments! Extra-long books that are worth your time What Is Epic For Books Epic, a digital library and e-reader for children, has more than 100 titles available weekly for kids. The novel is the longest on this list, having a length of more than 360 thousand words. If you’re more of an audiobook listener, check out 20 extra-long audiobooks so you can get the most out of those credits. It can be difficult to sell Lonesome Dove to readers because it is such a lengthy process. Sometimes it helps to be reminded that these books are worth the time so I decided to put together a new collection of books that are more than 500 pages, including a few that are on my TBR. I’m not the only one who hesitates to pick up long reads. ![]() Lately I’ve been reading A LOT of hefty books: you’ll see two in my most recent edition of Quick Lit, I’m in the middle of Wolf Hall on audio, I’m debating The Whalebone Theater (tell me if it’s worth it in comments?). While I wouldn’t count it among my lifetime favorite reads, I’m glad I read it-and the reading experience has softened me towards other doorstop novels. I hate to see any reader miss out on great titles because they categorically refuse to consider them, and I was in danger of becoming that reader, because I was so persistently dodging long books! Last summer I finally read The Count of Monte Cristo after putting it off for ages because of that 1300 page count. It became far easier to say I would read an extra-long book someday… but then someday never comes. The issue was opportunity cost: I could read five full-length novels in the time it would take me to read just one extra-long book. Eventually I started not only shying away from doorstop novels but actively avoiding them in favor of shorter reads. In fact, when I was seventeen my English teacher assigned an essay on the topic, “What does everyone hate but you?” My answer: long books.īut somewhere along the way, things changed. I don’t recall ever being intimidated by the page counts of the tomes I devoured in high school. After all, if a book was so good, why would I want it to end? In fact, I felt a good book couldn’t be long enough. When I was growing up, there was nothing I loved more than an extra-long book.
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