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
Audiobook
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
Ebook
A bold English adventurer. An invincible Japanese warlord. A beautiful woman torn between two ways of life, two ways of love. All brought together in an extraordinary saga of a time and a place aflame with conflict, passion, ambition, lust, and the struggle for power... From...
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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
Ebook
Outlander
Diana Gabaldon
Paper Book
The iconic first novel in the bestselling Outlander series, as seen on Amazon Prime. 'A series that will keep you turning the pages long into the night' Rebecca Yarros 'Epic, magical, and deeply romantic. A true gift to all readers.' Ali...
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara
Paper Book
'I'm not exaggerating when I say this novel challenged everything I thought I knew about love and friendship. It's one of those books that stays with you forever.' - Dua Lipa The million-copy bestseller, Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life, by the author of To Paradise,...
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee
Paper Book
* The million-copy bestseller* * National Book Award finalist * * An instant New York Times Bestseller and one of their 10 Best Books of 2017 * * Selected for Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf book club * 'This is a captivating book... Min...
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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