This is sort of silly to vote on because it's not a matter of opinion (like best or worst). Check the number of pages: I have a feeling the Bible probably is the longest in reality, but I could be wrong!

exactly! this one has a numeric measurement and everything. maybe we're each just using the list to count our individual mental badges of courage, that these are the brickyest tomes we've each slogged through?

I'm going by "brickyest" and most difficult, either by attention or pure length. But also, I'm going by digestion required. I loved Ayn Rand's books, but they are deep, as well as long.

There are loads of long books I loved reading, such as Neil Stephenson's Baroque Cycle and Chryptonomicon. I don't want to lump them in with hard and unpleasant books like War and Peace and The Third Reich, though. So, I'm not voting for them, much as I enjoyed them.

War and Peace is not hard and unpleasant...

House of Leaves should be in the top 10

I agree with an early comment. I'm voting for long and difficult books. And, by that standard, The Satanic Verses should be on the list simply due to the mental effort and coffee required to finish it. I bought it to fight censorship back during the fatwa and finally finished it long after the fatwa had been rescinded.

It may be a matter of numeric measurement, but 'thickest' doesn't necessarially mean hardest, or even longest. A 500 page penguin classic may be the same length as a 1000 page popular fiction book as the printing is so small, and the pages are so thin. Also, length is no measure of the difficulty in reading a book.

I don't get it. Les Miserables is a good hundred pages thicker than War and Peace! But, I still have to read War and Peace and then I can compare it to my favorite book ever Les Miserables. :)

This list needs some pruning. There's no reason some of these books should be on here. Example: The Stranger. It's only 129 pages and I found it a fun read. Other books on this list are close to 10 times as long, and some like Infinite Jest also come with a cadre of footnotes.

Michelle wrote: "exactly! this one has a numeric measurement and everything. maybe we're each just using the list to count our individual mental badges of courage, that these are the brickyest tomes we've each sl..."

If that's the case it's a sad commentary on whoever voted for those Steven King books.

Harry Potter 5 is the longest in the series. idk y it isnt above the seventh.

Seriously, A Suitable Boy is 1100 pages long. Its a riveting book, but the hardback also doubles as a deadly weapon!

I'm going to vote on books that were a really long read...since the number of pages isn't that interesting of a vote.

Don Quixote is extremely long! 1000 plus pages!

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I think it all depends on your idea of long. My idea of long is like 1000 pgs or more. Ex]Don Quixote which I've been reading slowly for a while now . I'm also reading The Grapes of Wrath now and I think it's considerably shorter!

Think it includes "Fat" "Long" AND "Thick" so I think we're both right :)

Seriously? Breaking Dawn?

Gosh.

"How Men Have Babies:" has 219 pages. "The Wandering Jew" has 176 pages. My heavens! Surely these cannot be considered long books. Maybe there should have been a threshold of at least 700 pages to enter a book--or even 500 pages.

There are a couple of lists, I think, with page restrictions. One of them is the 800-pagers: http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/47... .

i had to use 2 bookmarks... you'd get it when you read it. the infinite jest had about 1079 pages. nuff said.

i wouldn't put Night world on the list since it's 3 books combined.

Seriously? Why do I see the Twilight series up there?

Because Twilight shows up on almost all lists.

If it's based only on the length, I don't know why some books are here - they're less than 500 pages and I think books less than 700 pages are not really long at all.