Long Books for Long Days

Lengthy books for those looking for reads to immerse themselves in and to do so for a good, long while.
Updated September 19, 2022
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War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
Paper Book
'If life could write, it would write like Tolstoy.' Isaac BabelTolstoy's epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and public individuals during the time of the Napoleonic wars and the French invasion of Russia. The fortunes of the Rostovs and the Bolkonskys, of Pierre, Natasha, and Andrei,...
The Luminaries
Eleanor Catton
Paper Book
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2013 - The astonishing and epic second novel from the prize-winning author of The Rehearsal.
The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION Theo Decker, aged thirteen, is left alone in the world after surviving a catastrophe that kills his only close relative - his mother - and tears him away from everything he knows. Tormented by grief, drifting from home to home,...
The Pillars of the Earth
Ken Follett
Paper Book
A spellbinding epic tale of ambition, anarchy, and absolute power set against the sprawling medieval canvas of twelfth-century England, this is Ken Follett's classic historical masterpiece.The Pillars of the Earth tells the story of Philip, prior of Kingsbridge, a devout and resourceful monk driven...
Middlemarch
George Eliot
Paper Book
Dorothea Brooke is a beautiful and idealistic young woman set on filling her life with good deeds. She pursues the pompous Edward Casuabon, convinced that he embodies these principles, and becomes trapped in an unhappy marriage. Then there is Tertius Lydgate, an anguished progressive whose...
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Ebook
Shogun
James Clavell
Paper Book
SOON TO BE AN FX LIMITED SERIES * A bold English adventurer. An invincible Japanese warlord. A beautiful woman torn between two ways of life. All brought together in an extraordinary saga aflame with passion, conflict, ambition, and the struggle for power. ...
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Roberto Bolaño
Ebook
1Q84
Haruki Murakami
Paper Book
"Murakami is like a magician who explains what he's doing as he performs the trick and still makes you believe he has supernatural powers . . . But while anyone can tell a story that resembles a dream, it's the rare artist, like this one, who can make us feel that we are dreaming it ourselves." --...
The Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco
Audiobook
Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Ebook
'A delicious, important novel' The Times 'Alert, alive and gripping' Independent 'Some novels tell a great story and others make you change the way you look at the world. Americanah does both' Guardian As teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is...
Outlander
Diana Gabaldon
Paper Book
'Scotland's answer to Game of Thrones' HERALD THE FIRST NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING OUTLANDER SERIES, as seen on Amazon Prime Now available to preorder- Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone, the long-awaited latest book in the Outlander...
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A stunning "portrait of the enduring grace of friendship" (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST *...
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee
Paper Book
In this New York Times bestseller, four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan-the inspiration for the television series on Apple TV+.  In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored...
Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell
Paper Book
Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel
Paper Book
Tudor England. Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is charged with securing his divorce. Into this atmosphere of distrust comes Thomas Cromwell - a man as ruthlessly ambitious in his wider politics as he is for himself. His reforming agenda is carried out in the grip of a...
The Queen of the Night
Alexander Chee
Ebook
Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie
Paper Book
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
Susanna Clarke
Paper Book
OVER 4 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE Shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award; longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 'Unquestionably the finest English novel of the fantastic written in the last...
A Suitable Boy
Vikram Seth
Ebook

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