Polls for Our Souls discussion

Mine is Breaking Dawn which is 756 pages. I am currently reading IT by Stephen King which is 1,488 pages.

What is the longest book you have read?

My longest book was probably IT by Stephen King. Second is STORM OF SWORDS by George RR Martin at 1,179 pages.

I'm also going to say It by Stephen King. But it was worth every page!

My longest book read was Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, which is 870 pages! I read that book back in 2016 too actually. (Yes, I was way late haha)

Whoah, 1,488 pages is a lot haha one day I will read a book that long. One day.

probably one of the in the company of shadows books or one of the a song of ice and fire ones because i know all of those are over 1000 pages. usually i like to stay with shorter books though lol

Little Dorrit is probably the longest. Depending on the edition it tends to be 1000+ pages.

Definitely Anna Karenina, at a thousand pages. I've also read Winter, which was 834 pages or something but it certainly didn't feel like it!

Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret George.....


It was small print, 937 something pages and literally took me a year to get through. It was one of those for me I HAD to read more than one book with it cause I could take so much. But I did end up LOVING it and the research done to make this into a historical novel was incredible! I did learn one thing cool: the author said if you go to Egypt, you can find ALL SORTS of info on Cleopatra and she did to what she sounded like to her physical appearance and everything. The stuff we know mainly about her comes from her enemies in Rome such as Virgil and Cicero. But that book was worth reading (plus I'm a slow reader once in a while haha but kudos for those who can get through those big ones in a month or less!!)

Order of the Phoenix is the longest book I've read, it has 800+ pages!

Longest book I read was Roots. It was over 1000 pages. Took me a month to read but it was really good.

De ontdekking van de hemel, a Dutch book by Harry Mulisch, 905 pages

I read was Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling , it has 870 page.

Probably Under the Dome. It has something like 1080 pages.
I've read several books with 800 something pages and I'm currently reading Outlander and A Game of Thrones. So still some pages to come :-P

Harry Potter and The Order of The Pheonix, like most people

my longest book is IT by Stephen KING 1116 pages..

The Norwegian hardback of The Wise Man's Fear which was about 1000 pages.

Les Miserables at 1463 pages.

I read It once and listened to it once. I think my paperback of It is only 1090 long. The audio was 44 hours!

I'd have to say The Tommyknockers

Les Miserables

Matthew wrote: "Les Miserables at 1463 pages. I read it once and listened to it once. I think my paperback of It is only 1090 long. The audio was 44 hours!"

I've been trying to finish this and I started it about a year ago. Right now I'm still 115 pages in. It's the unabridged and complete paperback (I think we have the same copy) It's just so full of descriptions and I'd start to get sleepy every time I try to read it, and quite intimidated just by looking at its thickness. I won't buy the summarized one though, because I'd prefer to digest everything and won't have it the easy way, if it takes me 5 years to finish this, then so be it. I'm frustrated at myself

Matthew wrote: "Les Miserables at 1463 pages. I read it once and listened to it once. I think my paperback of It is only 1090 long. The audio was 44 hours!"

I've had that book sitting on my shelf for about 5 years now. I'm so intimidated because it's so big!

I just realized my post read incorrectly - I separated the first sentence (about Les Miserables) from the next three sentences (about Stephen King's It). It kinda sounded like I was only talking about Les Mis!

Tecla wrote: "Matthew wrote: "Les Miserables at 1463 pages. I read it once and listened to it once. I think my paperback of It is only 1090 long. The audio was 44 hours!"

I've had that book sitting on my shelf ..."

AHHHHH SO RELATABLE. Will this also be the future for my Les Miserables? haha

Tecla wrote: "I've had that book sitting on my shelf for about 5 years now. I'm so intimidated because it's so big! "

Deci Arielle wrote: "I've been trying to finish this and I started it about a year ago. Right now I'm still 115 pages in. It's the unabridged and complete paperback (I think we have the same copy) It's just so full of descriptions and I'd start to get sleepy every time I try to read it, and quite intimidated just by looking at its thickness. I won't buy the summarized one though, because I'd prefer to digest everything and won't have it the easy way, if it takes me 5 years to finish this, then so be it. I'm frustrated at myself"

I made sure to read at least 10 pages a day. That would normally make it take about 5 months. However, as I got more into it, I found myself reading larger chunks and it only took about 3 months - and, by pacing myself, it never felt too intimidating!

One of the A Song of Ice and Fire books. I've read them all but I can't remember which is longest.

Probably Order of the Phoenix (870 pages), with second and third being Inheritance (849) and Winter (823).

I do want to read/reread A Song of Ice and Fire over the summer, and the last three books are over 1000 pages long.

Gone With the Wind-1448 pgs

Probably either War and Peace or Les Miserables.

Going to be Les Miserables...reading it right now

The Way of Kings - 1207 pgs (spanish edition)

probably 500 pages idk

probably a storm of swords by george r r martin (1179 pages i THINK)

i'm currently reading anna karenina by leo tolstoy which is 945 pages. longest i've finished is probably order of the phoenix? which was like 663 i think

The Goldfinch by donna tartt, 789 pages I think?

Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson, I think. 1100 pages?

Winter by Marissa Meyer. I think it had 834 pages or something like that.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. It had around 800 pages I think.

Winter of the World by Ken Follett? It was a thick book gosh.

The Witching Hour by Anne Rice
1038 pages long.

Michael Jackson: The Magic, The Madness, The Whole Story, 1958-2009

It was 884 pages long! It was a good read!

I have read War and Peace (1,392 pages), The Count of Monte Cristo (1,276 pages), and The Witching Hour (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #1) by Anne Rice (1,038 pages)...among quite a few others in the 800-1000 page range.

I never use to mind long reads but I've wanted to read S, M, L, XL by Rem Koolhaas (1,344 pages) and Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (1,168 pages) for a while now but lately it has been so daunting starting anything over 1,000 pages...

"drums of autum" by diana gabaldon

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is the longest book I've ever read I think.. although I've read some other things that felt really long. Although I'm not sure about the page number.

The longest book that I read was "It" Stephen King

11/22/63

which seems to have 849 pages but I feel like it had WAY more than that. Took me forever to read.

Court of wings and ruin. 720 pages

Harry potter and the order of the Phoenix , the french edition has over 1000 pages !

If I sort my Read shelf in descending order by pages (and eliminate any box sets) the longest was The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Volume 1 at 2459 pages. Although I didn't ever read the entire thing, (I got it in college) I have read most of it over the years.

The Harry Potter box set at 4100 pages is probably the longest if you allow multi-volumes. But that was originally intended to a multi-volume thing.

Honorable mention should go to The Winds of War (896 pages) & War and Remembrance (1056 pages) as Herman Wouk HAD initially intended to write just one book but his editors insisted he break it into two.

Clarissa by Samuel Richardson

2,800 pages went through a cookbook on modernist cuisine.
Took my quite a bit, but I can cook a lot better now!