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Today’s all about BIG BOOKS. ‘Cause you know, I like big books and I cannot lie… except I am lying a little bit because even though I love big books they also intimidate me and I get frustrated when I spend too long on one book so I only read them sporadically… But I did read some big books in my life so far! Here are the biggest ones, according to Goodreads:
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K Rowling: 870 pages (also my favorite Harry Potter book. Coincidence?)
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon: 850 pages
Winter by Marissa Meyer: 827 pages (What? It felt like I read this in a day!)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling: 759 pages
Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer: 756 pages
Brisingr by Christopher Paolini: 748 pages (Itching for a re-read of this series soon)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling: 734 pages
City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare: 725 pages
Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare: 720 pages (And LOVED every single page!)
Eldest by Christopher Paolini: 704 pages
A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas: 699 pages
Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas: 693 pages (MUST. REREAD. BEFORE. KINGDOM. OF. ASH)
I don’t like big books… and I say this a little too often.
I’m all about the 300-some page novels. To me, that’s the best length or otherwise I kind of begin to feel like I’ll *never* finish the book. But also, I think the fact that I’m a turtle reader makes me a bad lengthy book reader.
Spying lots of Outlander, HP, and SJM on today’s lists. But then these authors/books are a perfect fit for today.
Gabaldon’s books are huge. And I see Clare and Paolini’s books popping up quite a bit. In both cases I didn’t realize they had such long books!
I like reading long books, they feel so satisfying! The longest book on my list was The Fiery Cross from the Outlander series.
I love big books! The longest I’ve read (which was this year) was Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon with 1,070 pages. But I wasn’t really fond of the story so that was too bad.
Oh yes I feel you Lindsey. Some big books can be so great and yet lately I’ve not been picking them up.
Because intimidation.
Sometimes long books are great because you don’t want the story to end, but they do take me longer to read so it can get frustrating. LOL I think many of the HP books would be on my list, as would Winter.
-Lauren
I like big books, but only when they’re books like Harry Potter and The Lunar Chronicles. Those books are huge but were so good and so fast-paced that I breezed right through them.