For me it’s Metro 2033 by Dmitriy Glukhovskiy, which is 500 pages long
Every book from the ASOIAF series. They’re all massive, but A Dance with Dragons has over a thousand pages
In that case, ADWD could be my longest individual book.
As for longest work, either this one or Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time, which may be a bit longer overall. Although I only got to the end of the ones he wrote. I never got round to the Sanderson books. I’d like to try again but unfortunately Sanderson is up there with Stephen King with authors who bore the pants off me.
Depend what you read, Sanderson is very uneven writer in terms of technique, but what draws people to him is rather his originality than his workshop. For example, i think his highest acclaimed series, the “Mistborn” is boring (still original but boring), first book have incredibly tedious action scenes and later ones while fixing it to large extent, don’t manage to fit in something good instead so it’s the same words but spreaded. On the other hand, Stormlight Archives, while much more wordy, are for me one of the best series i read lately. I also love his early single books, Elantris and Warbreaker. Also The Rithmatist, his version of scholomance genre, but better than anyhing i read in it. Lately in Poland they been publishing Skyward and its continuations but i think it absolute crap, his worst book.
I also hate Wheel of Time, Jordan was third rate scribbler who can’t make interesting characters and instead is flooding readers with his sexual frustrations.
Really? No one else read “House of Leaves”? Y’all are missing out on the best psychogical essay novel ever written
I read it Sophomore year. It gave me nightmares for a while. I loved it.
House of Leaves is around 700 pages long, am I wrong? Most books mentioned in this post’s comments are longer, so maybe that is why.
I am halfway through Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain, 1047 pages long.
How is it? I’ve heard good things.
And you’ve heard well if you ask me.
David Weber Honorverse, something like 30 books averaging around 600 pages each. Main plot is 17 books (i think, at the end main plot and spinoffs converge).
A single tome book would be James Clavell’s Shogun, 1125 pages, small font.
What do you make of Clavell? I like long reads and Asian culture, but I hesitate to buy his books because he is an Englishman and I fear they might eventually converge into the usual White Saviour and Noble Savages bullshit you tend to find in literature from back in the day
Shogun is pretty good, protagonist do have some white saviour moments and quite a lot of orientalism but the book is written good, so the author is invisible, and all that is put on a head of XVI century british sailor (for a XVI century British sailor Blackthorne is actually remarkably tolerant and open minded at least after Yabu and Omi explain to him he’s not in England anymore). The book also make few important points about about christianity in Japan. Definitely low key anticolonialist.
Tai-pan is worse, but i read it long ago and don’t remember much.
