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This week I'm looking at the longest books I've read. I though It was the longest but I've forgotten it's the extended version of The Stand I have!
1) Stephen King-The Stand (1421 pages)
2) Katherine Hardy-Coronation Street (1136 pages)
3) Stephen King-It (1116 pages)
4) Margaret Mitchell-Gone With The Wind (1011 pages)
5) George RR Martin-A Clash of Kings (913 pages)
6) David Starkey-Six Wives (880 pages)
7) George RR Martin-A Feast For Crows (852 pages)
8) Alastair Campbell-The Blair Years (832 pages)
9) JK Rowling-Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (800 pages)
10) Stephen King-Needful Things (790 pages)
Just for fun, here are 11-20!
11) George RR Martin-A Game of Thrones (780 pages)
12) George W Bush-Decision Points (768 pages)
13) Stephenie Meyer-Breaking Dawn (756 pages)
14) Randy Taraborrelli-Jackie, Ethel, Joan Women of Camelot (752 pages)
15) Stephen King-The Tommyknockers (747 pages)
16) Donald Rumsfeld-Known And Unknown (726 pages)
17) Laurell K Hamilton-Incubus Dreams (724 pages)
18) Ricky Ponting-At The Close of Play (704 pages)
19) Tony Blair-A Journey (691 pages)
20) John J Nance-Blackout (672 pages)
And 21-30 for my own future reference!
21) Cornelius Ryan-A Bridge Too Far (670 pages)
22) Jung Chang-Wild Swans (666 pages)
23) Philippa Gregory-The Other Boleyn Girl (661 pages)
24) Arnold Schwarzenegger-Total Recall (656 pages)
25) Jean Plaidy-Murder Most Royal (646 pages)
26) Stephenie Meyer-Eclipse (629 pages)
27) Philippa Gregory-Wideacre (624 pages)
28) George RR Martin-A Storm of Swords part 1 (624 pages)
29) George RR Martin-A Dance With Dragons part 1 (624 pages)
30) Alfred Lansing-Endurance (620 pages)
Oh my goodness Chuckles, these are EPIC!
ReplyDeleteI had no idea I'd read so many huge ones until I did the list!
DeleteI'm seeing a lot of Stephen King in there...
ReplyDeleteHe has quite a few down in the 500's as well! Books that size scare me now!
DeleteI knew Martin wrote massive books, but I never realized how long King's books were until today.
ReplyDeleteSame here! I'd forgotten how huge some of them were!
DeleteI love that you went so far. I looked a few ahead because mine seemed like a race between Stephen King and Harry Potter. I knew you'd have a lot of Martin books on your list!
ReplyDeleteThere would be more GRRM but I bought the split volumes of a few of the books instead of the huge single editions!
DeleteThere’s an EXTENDED version of The Stand?! You mean there’s a longer version than the one I read? OMG, how does anybody write that much?! Stephen King needs to calm down.
ReplyDeleteAj @ Read All The Things!
I'm not sure which edition you read but this was the edition released in the 1990's that was full of the stuff King's publisher made him cut out. I love this book!
Deleteyup King is the king of loooong books. BUT when you like it you don't care right? Like .. I lost count of how many times I have reread Gone With The Wind and HP. And they never felt "long" to me I need to keep trying with King's books and Got! I HAVE to read them LOL :) Great list Chuckles! :)
ReplyDeleteIf it is well written, you don't mind so much I guess! Harry Potter never felt long to me when I was reading it. I need to reread and get decent reviews done for these huge bad boys...*groans*
DeleteI guess Philippa Gregory has some big ones too! And of course Martin, who makes up probably half my largest books!
ReplyDeleteIt's funny that her books never felt long when I was reading them which I guess is a good thing, but I was surprised to see her feature!
DeleteYou have tackled some long books, Chuckles! I don't mind long books as long as the story is goo. I see several here that are on my tbr list.
ReplyDeleteHopefully you'll enjoy them!
DeleteYeah I read the extended version of The Stand too, and I wish I hadn't! I liked the book, but from what a lot of people have told me, many of the cuts and edits were there for a reason. I enjoyed the book anyway!
ReplyDelete~Mogsy @ BiblioSanctum
I really do have to reread my favourite King books. I need to write better reviews for some of them!
DeleteIt's gotta be mostly non-fiction and fantasy doorstoppers, for me! Hmmmm...
ReplyDeleteThere are some massive non fiction books out there! I have a lot of big political and history non fiction waiting for me...
DeleteI think The Stand is one of King's books that I haven't read. Needful Things is one of my favorite books. I liked the movie also even though it wasn't a very good movie
ReplyDeleteI liked a few of the films like Salems Lot, Carrie, the Cat's Eye stories, IT...they could've done better with Christine though!
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