Top Ten Tuesday is a bookish meme originally created by The Broke and the Bookish and currently hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Although today is Wednesday (oops), I’m taking part anyway. I was planning on posting yesterday but Wednesday’s plans got brought forward so I ended up not being able to.
The topic for this week is books with a high page count and I originally wanted to share my favourite long books, but I realised that a lot of them are later books in series or books I read a really long time ago, since I read a lot of genres that tend to be shorter recently. Instead, I decided to share some of the longest books on my TBR.
It would be the actual longest 10 books on my TBR, but I figured you wouldn’t be interest in a list of 10 massive history books that I bought for my degree and never finished, so it’s a slightly edited top 10 hehe.
Without further ado, let’s go and take a look!
P.S. Doing this post did inspire me to finally redo my TBR shelf on the Storygraph so it’s accurate to the books I own and haven’t read (I have a separate list for other kinds of TBR books)… Goodreads is a lost cause but at least Storygraph is up to date! (Yes it’s a horrific number, trying not to think about it). So these are genuinely picked from all the books I own and haven’t read, not just the ones I can remember.
My Top 10
We’ll start with the shortest books and work our way down!
- Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr | Speculative + Literary Fiction | 626 pages
- The Secret History by Donna Tartt | Mystery/Thriller + Literary Fiction | 628 pages
- The Will of the Many by James Islington | Adult Fantasy | 630 pages
- The Mask of Mirrors by M. A. Carrick | Adult Fantasy | 643 pages
- The Art of Destiny by Wesley Chu | Adult Fantasy | 654 pages
- Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden | Historical Fiction | 758 pages
- The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon | Adult Fantasy | 830 pages
- Middlemarch by George Eliot | Classic British Literature | 922 pages
- The Red Brush: Writing Women of Imperial China by Wilt L. Idema and Beata Grant
Non-fiction (history/literary criticism) | 960 pages
This is a cross between a non-fiction book about the writing of said women, and a collection of their writings and it’s one I’ve bought in preparation for my master’s degree. - The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
Adult fantasy | 1124 pages
Officially the longest book on my TBR and one that I am both really intimidated by and really want to read, it’s the first book in the Starlight Archive series by Brandon Sanderson (and yes, all of the books are massive – they’re all over 1000 pages and even the novellas are 250+ pages)!
Bonus entry!
The Story of the Stone, more widely known as The Dream of the Red Chamber, is a mid-18th century Chinese novel of truly epic proportions. Although published in five volumes in this English translation, that does not correlate to five books in a series – they just have to split the book up because it would be so unwieldily.
(Proof in case you think I’m lying – the volumes are labeled with chapter numbers!) And look how long each of those books are! The fourth and fifth volume are slightly shorter (350-400 pages), but each of 1, 2, and 3 alone are 500-600+ pages!
I didn’t include it on my list proper because I have only bought volume 1, but I still think it deserves a mention.
Question Time!
Have you read any of these books? Are any of them less intimidating than they seem (please)? If not, what are the biggest books on your TBR!
Keira x
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