What's The Longest Book You've Read?

Question

The longest book I've read... well, I'm still reading it actually, well it's 928 pages long.

Answer 1

The longest book I have ever read is Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer and it was 754 pages.  

Answer 2

Hawaii by James A. Michener. It's about 1100 pages.

Answer 3

The Bible! and still aint done!!!

Answer 4

for me also the bible it has only two versions but it took a year for me to read the whole book, because the word that use was so powerful I cant understand.

Answer 5

Don Quixote.

Answer 6

The Stand: uncut. By Stephen King. 1153 pages. Excellent book.

Answer 7

I forgot. I think it was the first harry potter book back in the six grade. Bored me to death, I'm not a big fan of reading. lol!!

Answer 8

not including the Bible, probably Harry Potter and the order of the phoenix.  

Answer 9

An oversize picture book about the Great Barrier Reef....that thing was like 2 feet long...

Answer 10

Besides the Bible (though that is actually various books in one volume), Gone with the Wind, which is more than 1000 pages, has to be one of the longest books I've read. I believe my copy is 1037 pages.

***Edit: While rechecking my answer, I realized I didn't add a rather important piece of information: my copy of GWTW is a hardcover with small print. (I didn't think to add that until I saw reader's answer; it's a pertinent point.)

Answer 11

One of my accounting textbooks.

Answer 12

Outside of The Bible?

Probably Don Quixote or War and Peace.

Answer 13

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. I kept forgetting about the characters and had to start back two times. But nevertheless, it was an enjoyable read. I think no book, however long, can seem long to you if it's good. And I don't select a book until it has a good reputation.  

Answer 14

Dragonlance Chronicles, a good read btw, over 1000 pages. also Dragonlance Legends. over 1000 pages.  

Answer 15

encyclopedia

the bible is actually short because the pages are small so there isn't much text on each page.

Answer 16

War and Peace (1455)* , probably, though I think read somewhere that Atlas Shrugged (1084)* had more words. That seems wrong though, looking at the two of them together. Maybe Atlas Shrugged was the American book with the most words, I don't know. So W&P, which also beats GWTW (1024)*.

If we're counting multi-volume works, then it would have to be Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Times Past (or, in the modern translation, In Search of Lost Time), which is seven ridiculously wordy volumes, totalling about 2500** tiny print pages. I doubt I'll pass that way again, though it remains on my shelf, for bragging rights, if nothing else!

Runner up: The Gulag Archipelago Trilogy by Solzhenitsyn, at about 1800* pages total.

*mass market paperback page count.

**trade paperback page count.

Answer 17

The Stand by Stephen King.  Somewhere like 1400 pages, it was made into a five part mini series.

Answer 18

The Bible - twice

Answer 19

The Bible is the longest because i have been reading it for years. Good Book. and many others but you ask for the longest!

Answer 20

Besides some of the obvious classics, I'd have to say Mein Kampf and most of the books by Edward Rutherford.  I have a paperback by Ken Follett that looks quite daunting.

Answer 21

Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer  almost 800 pages I think. I would have said the bible but I have never actually read the whole thing therefore to me that one doesn't qualify.

Answer 22

The Lord of the Rings