I love not only the satisfaction of closing the cover on the massive book after so much investment, but I also love the investment the book has made in me. It took it’s time to share life with me, to teach me, to confide in me. One reason I read series is because of the relationship developed with the characters - I come to hope for & route for & see their story finish well!
The biggest fiction book I've ever read was Lonesome Dove, 964 pages. I gasped when I looked it up just now. The story flew by because I enjoyed it so much. I had no idea it was that long!
For me it's IT by Stephen King. Still have Les Miserables and the stormlight novels on my shelf intimidating me every time I think about picking them up...I cowar away and think, maybe tomorrow
I read IT a long time ago, but don't own it, so it didn't get mentioned. It's definitely a huge one! I definitely didn't need to be intimidated one bit by Stormlight, but sometimes the size of books (especially genres we might read less frequently) can do that 😂
It's funny, because I know several people who have the reverse feelings on Les Mes vs War and Peace. I think War and Peace's battle repeated battle sequences (as opposed to Les Mis' one long scene of Waterloo) did me in haha.
Well the Bible is the biggest haha! But for regular books Anna Karenina. Working my way through war and peace. I found out that some of those pan Macmillan’s are abridged. I did not know that when I got some of them. I would check to see if that Don Quixote is. I am unsure which ones
Duh, the Bible is probably my biggest as well 🤦♀😂 I hope you enjoy War and Peace! My MacMillan edition of Don Quixote is unabridged. After reading the abridged version of The Count of Monte Cristo for YEARS without realizing it, I am very careful about checking before I purchase now haha
@@beautifulminutiae nice. Good to know! So far it’s taken me awhile with war and peace. I have similar thoughts to what you have said in your one video.
Fellow big book buyer here! :) I adore Middlemarch and am excited to hear your thoughts. A couple of large classics I've read are Don Quixote by Cervantes, Our Mutual Friend by Dickens, and The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky. The largest book I think I've ever read is Red Comet which is a biography on Sylvia Plath, and it clocks in at 1,154 pages. The next big books I hope to get to are The Count of Monte Christo and The Faerie Queene.
I am not very far into Middlemarch, but I'm already adoring Eliot's writing. Our Mutual Friend is my favorite Dickens! I'm surprised none of my Dostoevsky books made it on to this list, but the biggest ones I own are around 700-800 pages, so all of these others were bigger. I'd love the read The Faerie Queene at some point, but that's one that intimidates me.
I agree with you here, I love reading big books. It gives me a sense of accomplishment and joy when I’ve read the last page and closed the book. After reading Les Miserables I too love it 1000% Also, let’s take a moment and appreciate that penguin deluxe edition it is so gorgeous 😍🤭 The Count of Monte Cristo and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is on my April TBR, I hope that I enjoy them. Words of Radiance was fantastic!! I’ve reached the Rhythm of War but I keep holding off from starting it. I believe that I may do a re-read of the stormlight Archive first before I start book four.
Yes, I love the Penguin deluxe edition of Les Mis! It has so many beautiful details! Sounds like you have some amazing big books ahead of you in April!
The longest book I've read is also Les Mis. I have the word cloud classics edition, which is 1,263 pages. The longest book on my shelves I haven't read is Shogun by James Clavell at 1,150 pages. I'm waiting to read that one because it's part of a series and I'd like to get caught up on some other series before I start that one.
I love the word cloud edition of Les Mis! It's so pretty! Shogun is massive! Not finishing series before I start new ones is one of my fatal flaws 😂 I'm really trying this year though!
The biggest books I've read (and own) are hard to say currently due to being away from all my books, but I would say _War and Peace_ , _Anna Karenina_ , _Bleak House_ , Stephen King's _It_ , and maybe some epic fantasy novels like The Wheel of Time books I've read so far? (I currently can't think of any other books) I'm currently reading _Infinite Jest_ of course, but much slower than I wanted because of other books I've gotten into. As far as big TBR books I'm excited for/intimidated by? _A Suitable Boy_ is very high on my list and will be picked up as soon as I get like half way through _Infinite Jest_ or something like that, _Middlemarch_ I also want to pick up sometime soon (I might put that off until next year to start more in the beginning of March though), _Don Quixote_ is one I definitely want to read and might try joining you in reading, _The Count of Monte Cristo_ , _Les Misérables_ , _Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell_ , the rest of The Wheel of Time novels, The Stormlight Archive, some Neal Stephenson novels, Dickens' works, eventually _Outlander_ (just book 1 not the series to give it a read-test), and then I have some nonfiction like Walter Isaac's biography on Einstein, Herodotus' _The Histories_ , and so on since I realize I have a lot of big books I'm intent on getting to and am also intimidated by some and need to stop or else create my own mammoth list of mammoth books. Once I'm back with all my books, I think I might try giving this tag a go. Gotta make note of that...
I think you'll really enjoy Les Miserables whenever you get to it. You have some great big book reading ahead of you! I'd love to read A Suitable Boy at some point ... Infinite Jest scares me too much 😂 I hope you do this tag! I'd love to watch it!
One of the great things about reading on a Kindle is that you don't always realize how long the book is! I really enjoyed The Brontes: Wild Genius on the Moors, and was astounded to find it was 1833 pages and my longest book of the year. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell I went into blind also, and was captivated enough to not realize its length. Middlemarch is one where I did know the length, but again flew through. I hope you enjoy it too!
I feel like when people think of big books, War and Peace is one of the first ones that come to mind 😂 I had DNF'd both War and Peace and Les Miserables multiple times when I was younger, so I was bound and determined to conquer them both!
Great video! I've never read a Brandon Sanderson book. Any recommendations on where to start? The biggest fiction books I've read (not counting Stephen King or Harry Potter) are Anna Karenina, Cider House Rules, I Know This Much is True, The Goldfinch and Cutting for Stone. The biggest nonfiction I've read are The Warmth of Other Suns and And the Band Played On. My biggest TBR books are David Copperfield and Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China.
I haven't even come close to reading all of Sanderson's work, but I think that the original Mistborn trilogy (the first book is The Final Empire) is a great place to start! They're not as big as the Stormlight Archive books. They were my first fantasy books with an intricate magic system and Sanderson does a great job of making that accessible without it being overwhelming. You have some great big books on your list! I have wanted to try The Goldfinch and The Warmth of Other Suns at some point!
I think in the editions that I read, War and Peace was longer than Les Miserables. And we have about opposite reactions to those two 😂 War and Peace I loved and really hope to reread on the sooner side. Les Mis I was very underwhelmed by. I had a difficult time connecting with any of the characters and I think that is what made it difficult. Do you know who translated your edition? I think Words of Radiance or maybe Oathbringer is the longest of the Stormlight books, as far as word count goes. It would depend on which edition you have with page count though. Don Quixote is one I'm excited for. I have the same edition. I know some of those are abridged but I don't think that one is. I really don't like reading abridgments. I want to read the Dostoevsky by Frank as well. I know someone who read the entire five volume set, which I would like to do. But my library has the abridged version you have so I'll probably do that one instead. I might have to do this just so it gives me an excuse to dig out all of my long books 😂
I knew we had opposite reactions to War and Peace and Les Miserables 😂 My edition was translated by Christine Donougher. I read Maude's version of War and Peace. I'm not a fan of abridgements most of the time either! If you have the same edition of Don Quixote as I do, it's definitely unabridged! I checked before I purchased it. I hope you do this tag! I forgot to tag anyone, because I was too excited to talk about big books, apparently haha. Consider yourself tagged!
@beautifulminutiae I don't remember who my Les Mis translation was but I want to try a different one at some point as I'm sure that played a role in it somewhat. I hear so many people talking about loving it and all these little details that were important to them and it makes me want to love it too. I also read it at the same time as Brothers Karamazov, so I guess it's possible it was just outshined by Dostoevsky.
The Bible is the longest (especially my Dad’s large print 😂 which makes me feel like I am reading more. It is a Thompson Chain Reference Bible so the notes and commentary are more). I have a hard time sticking with long books! I think I need to try harder to sit still.
Hmm... other than the Bible, my copy of Anna Karenina is 838, but I've read all 4 of the Stormlight books. My LOTR is 1178 and yes I count it as 1 book. I've read The Stand at 1153. 11/22/63 is 849. I've read Gone with the Wind that's long and The Executioner's Song when I was in high school and it's 1056. Count of MC as you know....My copy of Dune is only 650 so it's "small".😅 and all those long Hobb books. I've never been afraid of big books except for Les Mis which I own but Sandy has convinced me after her discussion of it the other day that is nothing to fear. I haven't read Johnathon Strange yet either but only because I've been working to get the smaller books read in my shelves.
I feel silly for not mentioning the Bible now 😂 Maybe it's because I never put it on a shelf, so it escaped my notice haha. I think my edition of Anna Karenina is longer, but I couldn't check, because my dad is borrowing it right now 😂 I don't own The Stand, but that's another chunker I've read (along with IT). So fun to hear about all the long books you've read! Definitely don't be scared of Les Mis ... but go in knowing that there are lots of side tangents. Hugo was the king of those 😂
I feel compelled to mention the Bible or like I'm slighting it if I don't mention it. Lol😅 I find it funny that you've read It and I haven't. Lol I've put it off because of other books and also I'm not into horror so much any more (human bad things happening is horror I can deal with vs monster horror like that one. Lol. I'm also waiting to see if Chantal reads it since she picked it up in a free little library a few months back. ) I did get rid of my copy because I'll get it from the library if I ever do decide to read it...I don't think it's one I'll want to keep on my shelves vs some of his more human horror books.
@@Thecatladybooknook_PennyD I read IT the first year that Peter and I were married. I read The Stand, then The Shining and then IT. After finishing it, I concluded I was done with Stephen King forever 😂 I just can't handle his disturbing sexual content and that book still haunts me whenever I think about it. I can't imagine Chantel even making it through half of that book, but she may prove me wrong if she ever picks it up.
@@beautifulminutiae I've heard about the last ch or ending of It. Even if I did read the other pages (I started it last year and put it down because I wasn't into it) I had planned on not reading THAT ch. Just so you know... the books of his that are my fav do not contain any of that. (There are 2 scenes in his fantasy series that I had to skip over...full disclosure.)
@@Thecatladybooknook_PennyD the chapter you’re referring to is definitely the most egregious, but it’s far from the only gross content involving kids in the book. I can think of at least two other scenes I remember vividly. It’s good to know that not all of his books are like that, but the content in The Stand and IT was enough to make me feel okay not reading the rest of his books 😂
Read the Bible almost 2,000 pages. Les Miserables 1416 pages. IT by Stephen King 1100 pages give or take. The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien ( 50th anniversary hardcover edition is beautiful, full gilded pages with several beautiful fold out maps.
Not sure why the Bible slipped my mind while I was making this video 😂 It's definitely the book I've read the most ... LOTR is second! But I have those all in individual books, so I didn't count that as one book. How much is that altogether? Over 1000 pages, I'm sure!
I love not only the satisfaction of closing the cover on the massive book after so much investment, but I also love the investment the book has made in me. It took it’s time to share life with me, to teach me, to confide in me.
One reason I read series is because of the relationship developed with the characters - I come to hope for & route for & see their story finish well!
I love the way you phrased that ... "the investment the book has made in me." ❤️ When a book makes you feel that way, you know it's a great work!
The biggest fiction book I've ever read was Lonesome Dove, 964 pages. I gasped when I looked it up just now. The story flew by because I enjoyed it so much. I had no idea it was that long!
I didn't realize Lonesome Dove was so long! I love books that you don't feel the length like that.
gus needs poke
For me it's IT by Stephen King. Still have Les Miserables and the stormlight novels on my shelf intimidating me every time I think about picking them up...I cowar away and think, maybe tomorrow
Stephen king. My favorite author
I read IT a long time ago, but don't own it, so it didn't get mentioned. It's definitely a huge one! I definitely didn't need to be intimidated one bit by Stormlight, but sometimes the size of books (especially genres we might read less frequently) can do that 😂
Les Mis ❤ I agree. War and peace was much harder. I need to reread the count of monte cristo. Kristen Lavransdatter 😊😊
It's funny, because I know several people who have the reverse feelings on Les Mes vs War and Peace. I think War and Peace's battle repeated battle sequences (as opposed to Les Mis' one long scene of Waterloo) did me in haha.
Well the Bible is the biggest haha! But for regular books Anna Karenina. Working my way through war and peace. I found out that some of those pan Macmillan’s are abridged. I did not know that when I got some of them. I would check to see if that Don Quixote is. I am unsure which ones
Duh, the Bible is probably my biggest as well 🤦♀😂 I hope you enjoy War and Peace! My MacMillan edition of Don Quixote is unabridged. After reading the abridged version of The Count of Monte Cristo for YEARS without realizing it, I am very careful about checking before I purchase now haha
@@beautifulminutiae nice. Good to know! So far it’s taken me awhile with war and peace. I have similar thoughts to what you have said in your one video.
Fellow big book buyer here! :) I adore Middlemarch and am excited to hear your thoughts. A couple of large classics I've read are Don Quixote by Cervantes, Our Mutual Friend by Dickens, and The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky. The largest book I think I've ever read is Red Comet which is a biography on Sylvia Plath, and it clocks in at 1,154 pages. The next big books I hope to get to are The Count of Monte Christo and The Faerie Queene.
I am not very far into Middlemarch, but I'm already adoring Eliot's writing. Our Mutual Friend is my favorite Dickens! I'm surprised none of my Dostoevsky books made it on to this list, but the biggest ones I own are around 700-800 pages, so all of these others were bigger. I'd love the read The Faerie Queene at some point, but that's one that intimidates me.
I agree with you here, I love reading big books. It gives me a sense of accomplishment and joy when I’ve read the last page and closed the book. After reading Les Miserables I too love it 1000% Also, let’s take a moment and appreciate that penguin deluxe edition it is so gorgeous 😍🤭 The Count of Monte Cristo and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is on my April TBR, I hope that I enjoy them. Words of Radiance was fantastic!! I’ve reached the Rhythm of War but I keep holding off from starting it. I believe that I may do a re-read of the stormlight Archive first before I start book four.
Yes, I love the Penguin deluxe edition of Les Mis! It has so many beautiful details!
Sounds like you have some amazing big books ahead of you in April!
The longest book I've read is also Les Mis. I have the word cloud classics edition, which is 1,263 pages. The longest book on my shelves I haven't read is Shogun by James Clavell at 1,150 pages. I'm waiting to read that one because it's part of a series and I'd like to get caught up on some other series before I start that one.
I love the word cloud edition of Les Mis! It's so pretty! Shogun is massive! Not finishing series before I start new ones is one of my fatal flaws 😂 I'm really trying this year though!
The biggest books I've read (and own) are hard to say currently due to being away from all my books, but I would say _War and Peace_ , _Anna Karenina_ , _Bleak House_ , Stephen King's _It_ , and maybe some epic fantasy novels like The Wheel of Time books I've read so far? (I currently can't think of any other books)
I'm currently reading _Infinite Jest_ of course, but much slower than I wanted because of other books I've gotten into.
As far as big TBR books I'm excited for/intimidated by?
_A Suitable Boy_ is very high on my list and will be picked up as soon as I get like half way through _Infinite Jest_ or something like that, _Middlemarch_ I also want to pick up sometime soon (I might put that off until next year to start more in the beginning of March though), _Don Quixote_ is one I definitely want to read and might try joining you in reading, _The Count of Monte Cristo_ , _Les Misérables_ , _Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell_ , the rest of The Wheel of Time novels, The Stormlight Archive, some Neal Stephenson novels, Dickens' works, eventually _Outlander_ (just book 1 not the series to give it a read-test), and then I have some nonfiction like Walter Isaac's biography on Einstein, Herodotus' _The Histories_ , and so on since I realize I have a lot of big books I'm intent on getting to and am also intimidated by some and need to stop or else create my own mammoth list of mammoth books.
Once I'm back with all my books, I think I might try giving this tag a go. Gotta make note of that...
I think you'll really enjoy Les Miserables whenever you get to it. You have some great big book reading ahead of you! I'd love to read A Suitable Boy at some point ... Infinite Jest scares me too much 😂
I hope you do this tag! I'd love to watch it!
One of the great things about reading on a Kindle is that you don't always realize how long the book is! I really enjoyed The Brontes: Wild Genius on the Moors, and was astounded to find it was 1833 pages and my longest book of the year. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell I went into blind also, and was captivated enough to not realize its length. Middlemarch is one where I did know the length, but again flew through. I hope you enjoy it too!
1,833 pages 😲 That's impressive. I love when a book enthralls you so much that you don't even notice its length!
I like big books and I can not lie. I have a lot of them on my shelves. I glad people are doing this tag. War and Peace is definitely on my list .
I feel like when people think of big books, War and Peace is one of the first ones that come to mind 😂 I had DNF'd both War and Peace and Les Miserables multiple times when I was younger, so I was bound and determined to conquer them both!
Great video! I've never read a Brandon Sanderson book. Any recommendations on where to start?
The biggest fiction books I've read (not counting Stephen King or Harry Potter) are Anna Karenina, Cider House Rules, I Know This Much is True, The Goldfinch and Cutting for Stone.
The biggest nonfiction I've read are The Warmth of Other Suns and And the Band Played On.
My biggest TBR books are David Copperfield and Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China.
I haven't even come close to reading all of Sanderson's work, but I think that the original Mistborn trilogy (the first book is The Final Empire) is a great place to start! They're not as big as the Stormlight Archive books. They were my first fantasy books with an intricate magic system and Sanderson does a great job of making that accessible without it being overwhelming.
You have some great big books on your list! I have wanted to try The Goldfinch and The Warmth of Other Suns at some point!
As Tiffany said, the original Mistborn books are a good place to start. If you want a standalone, you could also go for Warbreaker.
I agree with both of the Sanderson suggestions.
@@beautifulminutiae thanks!
@@CourtneyReads thanks!
I think in the editions that I read, War and Peace was longer than Les Miserables. And we have about opposite reactions to those two 😂 War and Peace I loved and really hope to reread on the sooner side. Les Mis I was very underwhelmed by. I had a difficult time connecting with any of the characters and I think that is what made it difficult. Do you know who translated your edition?
I think Words of Radiance or maybe Oathbringer is the longest of the Stormlight books, as far as word count goes. It would depend on which edition you have with page count though.
Don Quixote is one I'm excited for. I have the same edition. I know some of those are abridged but I don't think that one is. I really don't like reading abridgments.
I want to read the Dostoevsky by Frank as well. I know someone who read the entire five volume set, which I would like to do. But my library has the abridged version you have so I'll probably do that one instead.
I might have to do this just so it gives me an excuse to dig out all of my long books 😂
I knew we had opposite reactions to War and Peace and Les Miserables 😂 My edition was translated by Christine Donougher. I read Maude's version of War and Peace.
I'm not a fan of abridgements most of the time either! If you have the same edition of Don Quixote as I do, it's definitely unabridged! I checked before I purchased it. I hope you do this tag! I forgot to tag anyone, because I was too excited to talk about big books, apparently haha. Consider yourself tagged!
@beautifulminutiae I don't remember who my Les Mis translation was but I want to try a different one at some point as I'm sure that played a role in it somewhat. I hear so many people talking about loving it and all these little details that were important to them and it makes me want to love it too. I also read it at the same time as Brothers Karamazov, so I guess it's possible it was just outshined by Dostoevsky.
The Bible is the longest (especially my Dad’s large print 😂 which makes me feel like I am reading more. It is a Thompson Chain Reference Bible so the notes and commentary are more). I have a hard time sticking with long books! I think I need to try harder to sit still.
I'm sure the Bible is the longest for me also ... not sure how many pages the one I typically read is. I'm sure my study Bible is even longer!
Hmm... other than the Bible, my copy of Anna Karenina is 838, but I've read all 4 of the Stormlight books. My LOTR is 1178 and yes I count it as 1 book. I've read The Stand at 1153. 11/22/63 is 849. I've read Gone with the Wind that's long and The Executioner's Song when I was in high school and it's 1056. Count of MC as you know....My copy of Dune is only 650 so it's "small".😅 and all those long Hobb books. I've never been afraid of big books except for Les Mis which I own but Sandy has convinced me after her discussion of it the other day that is nothing to fear.
I haven't read Johnathon Strange yet either but only because I've been working to get the smaller books read in my shelves.
I feel silly for not mentioning the Bible now 😂 Maybe it's because I never put it on a shelf, so it escaped my notice haha. I think my edition of Anna Karenina is longer, but I couldn't check, because my dad is borrowing it right now 😂 I don't own The Stand, but that's another chunker I've read (along with IT). So fun to hear about all the long books you've read! Definitely don't be scared of Les Mis ... but go in knowing that there are lots of side tangents. Hugo was the king of those 😂
I feel compelled to mention the Bible or like I'm slighting it if I don't mention it. Lol😅
I find it funny that you've read It and I haven't. Lol I've put it off because of other books and also I'm not into horror so much any more (human bad things happening is horror I can deal with vs monster horror like that one. Lol. I'm also waiting to see if Chantal reads it since she picked it up in a free little library a few months back. ) I did get rid of my copy because I'll get it from the library if I ever do decide to read it...I don't think it's one I'll want to keep on my shelves vs some of his more human horror books.
@@Thecatladybooknook_PennyD I read IT the first year that Peter and I were married. I read The Stand, then The Shining and then IT. After finishing it, I concluded I was done with Stephen King forever 😂 I just can't handle his disturbing sexual content and that book still haunts me whenever I think about it. I can't imagine Chantel even making it through half of that book, but she may prove me wrong if she ever picks it up.
@@beautifulminutiae I've heard about the last ch or ending of It. Even if I did read the other pages (I started it last year and put it down because I wasn't into it) I had planned on not reading THAT ch.
Just so you know... the books of his that are my fav do not contain any of that. (There are 2 scenes in his fantasy series that I had to skip over...full disclosure.)
@@Thecatladybooknook_PennyD the chapter you’re referring to is definitely the most egregious, but it’s far from the only gross content involving kids in the book. I can think of at least two other scenes I remember vividly. It’s good to know that not all of his books are like that, but the content in The Stand and IT was enough to make me feel okay not reading the rest of his books 😂
Newly subscribed, very much enjoyed this!
Welcome! So glad to have you here!
📚😊
Thanks for watching, Nichole!
In Search of Lost Time by Proust - if that counts as one book, which it should.
Oh yes! That's a big one! I haven't read any Proust yet.
@@beautifulminutiae It's worth it but I have tips should you ever decide to do it.
@@Lokster71 I'll definitely be coming to you whenever I decide to tackle it! It's definitely something I'd at least like to try someday.
Read the Bible almost 2,000 pages. Les Miserables 1416 pages. IT by Stephen King 1100 pages give or take. The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien ( 50th anniversary hardcover edition is beautiful, full gilded pages with several beautiful fold out maps.
Not sure why the Bible slipped my mind while I was making this video 😂 It's definitely the book I've read the most ... LOTR is second! But I have those all in individual books, so I didn't count that as one book. How much is that altogether? Over 1000 pages, I'm sure!