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| 3 | !!General: |
| 4 | * A lot of epics - by definition - are doorstoppers. (But not all of them.) i.e., Spenser's ''Literature/TheFaerieQueene'' or Milton's ''Literature/ParadiseLost''. The one that takes the cake - and is THE longest piece of literature in the world - has never been definitively compiled. This is because the work, ''The Epic of King Gesar'', is some 20 million words long and would take an estimate of 120 volumes to complete. |
| 5 | * Many occult books and grimoires could be considered this. The two most well-known examples are probably Aleister Crowley's magnum opus, ''[[http://www.amazon.com/Magick-Liber-ABA-Book-4/dp/0877289190/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1458175502&sr=1-7&keywords=magick 'Magick: Liber ABA, Book 4']]'' which is a whopping 844 pages, and is affectionately referred to by many a Crowley-student as the 'Big Blue Brick'. The other is Israel Regardie's ''[[http://www.amazon.com/Golden-Dawn-Original-Teachings-Ceremonies/dp/0738743992/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1458176289&sr=1-1&keywords=the+golden+dawn 'The Golden Dawn: The Original Account of the Teachings, Rites, and Ceremonies of the Hermetic Order']]'' its most recent edition standing at 960 pages. Both are chock full of details on meditation, yoga, ceremonies and rituals, methods of creating, consecrating and using ritual tools and circles, outlines of rituals, spells, designs for talismans, and everything else needed to ensure that these two books go on to become two of the largest influences on modern ceremonial magic. |
| 6 | ** Other lesser-known or more modern examples also include the ''[[http://www.amazon.com/The-Book-Oberon-Sourcebook-Elizabethan/dp/0738743348 'Book of Oberon']]'', a recent translation and transcription of a 16th century manuscript that was held in the Folger Shakespeare Library, at 600 pages of spells, prayers, descriptions of spirits and demons and suchlike. Another example is the recent ''[[http://www.amazon.com/Foundations-Practical-Sorcery-Collected-Unabridged/dp/1905297858/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1458175849&sr=1-1&keywords=foundations+of+practical+sorcery 'Foundations of Practical Sorcery: Collected Works']]'', though this may not count since, while its collected edition is a hefty 848 pages long, it is technically made up of seven volumes that are available separately, each one based on a different branch of ceremonial magic (ritual tools, geomancy, scrying, Kabbalah, talismans, spirits of the cardinal directions and spirits of the Goetia). |
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| 8 | !!By Author: |
| 9 | * Creator/AleksandrSolzhenitsyn: |
| 10 | ** ''Literature/TheGulagArchipelago'' clocks in at 1,930 pages split across three volumes, the latter two of which appear to be out of print, while the first volume and an abridged one-volume edition remain in print. |
| 11 | ** ''The Red Wheel'', a multi-volume epic. It is sixteen volumes long, which count 6600 pages in total. And he was going to write four more volumes. |
| 12 | * Creator/AlexandreDumas in general is almost king of this trope. His novels were serialized in newspapers initially, the longer it lasted the more he was paid. |
| 13 | ** ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo''. The original, unabridged novel, printed on flimsy paper and in small type, produces an over-sized paperback volume a good four inches thick. Dumas was originally paid by the word for the original serial novel (published by chapter in the newspaper) and he made the most of it. |
| 14 | ** ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers'' is only one of ''three'' novels that comprise the ''D'Artagnan Romances'' -- the other two being ''Twenty Years After'' and ''The Vicomte de Bragelonne''. The first two are over 900 pages in most editions. ''The Vicomte de Bragelonne'' meanwhile is usually divided into ''three books'', and each one of them is ''over 800 pages long''. |
| 15 | * Creator/PaulFeval's ''Literature/LeBossu'' is over 500 pages long. His son Paul Féval Fils wrote continuation works, but they're all much shorter. |
| 16 | * Creator/AnthonyTrollope began writing novels to pass the time during train journeys in his capacity as a civil servant in the 1840s, and there are enough doorstoppers in his most widely read series for every door in the house. |
| 17 | ** In most editions of ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfBarsetshire'', ''The Warden'' is about 250 pages, but ''Barchester Towers'' is nearly twice that, ''Doctor Thorne'' and ''Framley Parsonage'' are over 500 pages, ''The Small House at Alligton'' is over 700 pages, and ''The Last Chronicle of Barset'' is over 900 pages. |
| 18 | ** All six of the ''Literature/{{Palliser}}'' novels are over 600 pages in most editions, with the first and longest, ''Can You Forgive Her?'', topping 800 pages (leading Creator/StephenKing to give it the sardonic nickname ''Can You Finish It?'' in his ''On Writing''). |
| 19 | * Creator/AynRand is infamous for writing these despite the fact that it only actually applies to her two most famous works, ''Literature/AtlasShrugged'' and ''Literature/TheFountainhead''. The first edition of ''Atlas Shrugged'' was over 1,000 pages and ''The Fountainhead'' was over 700. ''Atlas Shrugged'' also very infamously fills ''over fifty pages'' with a [[AuthorFilibuster monologue from one of the novel's heroes]]. Atlas must have Shrugged because he was tired of carrying the WriterOnBoard. |
| 20 | * The Black Library, the publisher for ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' fiction, tends to produce "omnibuses", which are collections of novels gathered into large, and, fittingly for the franchise, lethally heavy volumes. These include: |
| 21 | ** The ''Space Wolves Omnibus''. |
| 22 | ** The ''[[Literature/SoulDrinkers SoulDrinkers Omnibus]]'' |
| 23 | ** Creator/SandyMitchell's ''Literature/CiaphasCain'' omnibuses ''Hero of the Imperium'' and ''Defender of the Imperium''. |
| 24 | ** Three ''Literature/GauntsGhosts'' omnibuses (by Creator/DanAbnett) titled ''The Founding'', ''The Saint'' and ''The Lost''. |
| 25 | ** The Black Library also has Warhammer Fantasy fiction and has several omnibuses there too, among others is ''Gotrek and Felix'', and ''Malus Darkblade''. |
| 26 | * Creator/BrandonSanderson's early novels such as ''Literature/{{Elantris}}'' and ''Literature/MistbornTheOriginalTrilogy'' were in the already bulky range of 500-600 pages, however the ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'' take this to extreme degrees. The second book ''Literature/WordsOfRadiance'' comes in at 1088 pages, the maximum the publisher was physically capable of printing at the time (the original title was ''The Book of Endless Pages'', named after an in-universe book, but his editor thought it was a bit [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin on the nose]] considering its length). Apparently, they worked out a new system, as ''Literature/{{Oathbringer}}'' and ''Literature/RhythmOfWar'' clock in at an enormous 1248 pages and 1212 pages, respectively. Sanderson has said he treats Stormlight books the same way he treats a ''trilogy'' of regular books, which the page count certainly reflects. |
| 27 | ** Even his novellas have started getting longer. ''Literature/{{Dawnshard}}'' is about 270 pages and 56,000 words. Certainly on the short side for a novel, but considerably longer than the 40,000 words commonly used as a cut off point for what can be considered a novella. |
| 28 | ** He also [[SelfDeprecation jokes about]] the Doorstopper-ness of his own books in the ''Literature/AlcatrazSeries'', when the FirstPersonSmartass narrator suggests that you could use one of his books to deliver a TapOnTheHead to forget something. |
| 29 | * Several of Creator/CharlesDickens's novels are massive due to their origin as serials. Creator/DaveBarry once gave a [[LittleKnownFacts joke etymology]] about "hurting like the dickens" being representative of the pain of having the entirety of the writings of Charles Dickens (consisting of voluminous volumes, considering how ''prolific'' the guy was) dropped on someone from a window. Among Dickens’s fourteen completed novels, eight - ''Literature/ThePickwickPapers'', ''Literature/NicholasNickleby'', ''Martin Chuzzlewit'', ''Literature/DombeyAndSon'', ''Literature/DavidCopperfield'', ''Literature/BleakHouse'', ''Literature/LittleDorrit'', and ''Literature/OurMutualFriend'' - are well over 800 pages in most editions; some are over 1000 pages with annotations and footnotes.[[note]] ''The Old Curiosity Shop'' and ''Barnaby Rudge'' are barely shorter at over 600 pages each; ''Literature/TheMysteryOfEdwinDrood'' would likely have reached these lengths had Dickens lived to finish it. English literature class staples ''Literature/OliverTwist'', ''Literature/ATaleOfTwoCities'', and ''Literature/GreatExpectations'' are a more manageable 400 pages each. The only non-doorstopper novel Dickens wrote was ''Literature/HardTimes'', which is less than 200 pages in most editions. The five Christmas books (''Literature/AChristmasCarol'', ''Chimes'', ''The Cricket on the Hearth'', ''The Battle of Life'', and ''The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain'') similarly clock in at around 100 pages each.[[/note]] |
| 30 | * Creator/CorneliaFunke: |
| 31 | ** The books of ''Literature/TheInkworldTrilogy'', ''Inkheart'', ''Inkspell'', and ''Inkdeath'', are 534, 635, and 683 pages respectively. |
| 32 | ** ''Literature/DragonRider'' is 536 pages. Individually, none of these books could actually stop a door, but two or three piled on top of each other probably could. |
| 33 | * Creator/CormacMcCarthy: |
| 34 | ** ''The Border Trilogy'' (which comprises ''Literature/AllThePrettyHorses'', ''The Crossing'', and ''Cities of the Plain'') is a staggering 1040 pages long. |
| 35 | ** ''The Passenger'' (which comprises ''The Passenger'' and ''Stella Maris'') is more modest at 608 pages. |
| 36 | * Any book by Creator/EdwardRutherfurd, an author who likes, in all his books, to start at day one and move up through the millennia of whatever area he is currently writing about. Historical fiction, very heavy on the details and that in turn makes very heavy doorstoppers. The paperback edition of his novel ''The Forest'' is 883 pages long and the paperback edition of ''London'' is a whopping 1299 pages! |
| 37 | * Creator/FyodorDostoevsky: |
| 38 | ** ''Literature/CrimeAndPunishment'' is well over 500 pages. |
| 39 | ** One edition of ''Literature/TheBrothersKaramazov'' is 720 pages long. |
| 40 | ** ''Penguin Classics''' edition of ''The Brothers K'' is (with around 12 pages of notes at the end) 1,013 pages long due to its more detailed, faithful translation. |
| 41 | * Initially published as three separate books, the most readily available incarnation of Creator/GuyGavrielKay's ''Literature/TheFionavarTapestry'' is a single-volume printing of 792 pages. He wrote a legitimate Doorstopper later on with ''Literature/{{Tigana}}'' (688 pages). |
| 42 | * Creator/HenryDarger wrote several monumental examples while toiling in obscurity as a janitor. |
| 43 | ** ''Literature/InTheRealmsOfTheUnreal, includes The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion'' is 15,145 pages and about 9 million words long. This would make it longer than ''À la recherche du temps perdu'', ''Literature/{{Clarissa}}'', ''A Suitable Boy'', ''Literature/AtlasShrugged'', ''Literature/WarAndPeace'', all the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' novels, ''Literature/LesMiserables'', ''Literature/MissionEarth'', ''Literature/ADanceToTheMusicOfTime'', ''Le Vicomte de Bragelonne'', ''Literature/DreamOfTheRedChamber'' and ''Artamene'' put together. The average reader can get through 200 words a minute; if you read for two hours a day, ''In the Realms of the Unreal'' would take about a year to get through. [[Creator/HenryDarger Darger]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsider_art created thousands of illustrations for the novel]]. |
| 44 | ** ''Crazy House'' is the sequel to ''In the Realms of the Unreal'' and measures about 10,000 pages in its own right. |
| 45 | ** Darger endeavored to write an autobiography called ''The History of My Life''. He got about 200 pages in and then [[MalignantPlotTumor digressed for more than 4,700 pages]] to tell a story about a sentient tornado named "Sweetie Pie." |
| 46 | ** If all that weren't enough, Darger also spent 10 years recording the daily weather in painstaking detail into a journal. |
| 47 | * Historian Ian Kershaw's two biographies of Adolf Hitler, ''Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris'' and ''Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis'' are both pretty large but neither quite qualifies as a doorstopper on its own. When published as a single combined volume, however, as they were in 2008, the book is just short of 1000 pages long, and that's excluding the new introduction ''and'' the index. |
| 48 | * Creator/IrvineWelsh's ''{{Literature/Glue}}'' and ''{{Literature/Skagboys}}'' are 560 and 548 pages, respectively. |
| 49 | * Creator/IsaacAsimov: |
| 50 | ** ''Literature/AsimovsGuideToShakespeare'': The {{Omnibus}} is over 800 pages. |
| 51 | ** ''Literature/TheCompleteRobot'': This anthology is over 550 pages in length, although several pages are blank or short to provide more spacing between the different {{Short Stor|y}}ies. |
| 52 | ** ''Literature/TheFarEndsOfTimeAndEarth'': This {{Omnibus}} contains over 500 pages because it merges three books that each run about 180 pages. |
| 53 | ** ''Literature/TheFoundationTrilogy'': |
| 54 | *** The 1963 {{Omnibus}} by Creator/{{Doubleday}} is over 650 pages long. Most omnibus editions are similarly lengthy. |
| 55 | *** The 1966 {{Omnibus}} by Creator/SidgwickAndJackson condensed the page count to about 550 pages without losing any of the story. |
| 56 | *** The largest copies are the 939-page German {{Omnibus}} translations by Creator/{{Heyne}} in 1991 and 1994. |
| 57 | ** ''Literature/IsaacAsimovTheCompleteStories'': |
| 58 | *** ''Volume 1'' contains over 600 pages, and just under 50 stories/poems. |
| 59 | *** ''Volume 2'' is slightly smaller, with over 500 pages, and only 40 stories/poems. |
| 60 | * All of Creator/JKRowling's written work between ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'' and ''Literature/CareerOfEvil'' was at least 400 pages long. The streak was finally broken with the published script for ''Film/FantasticBeastsAndWhereToFindThem'' (304 pages); though this is [[JustifiedTrope justified]] by it being a film script rather than a novel, and 300+ pages is still extremely hefty for a script. |
| 61 | ** ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'' in particular (the longest in the series, at 700-800+ pages depending on the edition) certainly qualifies as this; ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire Goblet of Fire]]'' and ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Deathly Hallows]]'' are fairly substantial and almost as long. ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince Half-Blood Prince]]'' as well, though it's not quite as long as the others mentioned but still over 500 pages. It's especially funny when you read that one of the excuses publishers used when repeatedly rejecting the first book of the series (clocking in at a fairly "slim" 300-odd pages) was "it's too long and kids won't read long books." |
| 62 | ** {{Lampshaded}} in ''[[Literature/TheBookOfBunnySuicides Return of the Bunny Suicides]]'', where a bunny orders ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'' so that it can wait under the mail slot and be killed when the book drops on its head. |
| 63 | ** A common joke around the time due to the size and print demand was saying book 6 (if larger than ''Order of the Phoenix''; it wasn't) would be called ''Harry Potter and the End of Trees''. This actually prompted Creator/JKRowling to insist that every edition of ''Deathly Hallows'' contain at least 30% recycled fiber. |
| 64 | ** Rowling's Literature/CormoranStrikeNovels, a detective series, have followed the same pattern as the Harry Potter books. HP #5, ''Order of the Phoenix'', was the longest book and much longer than the earlier ones. The fifth Strike novel, ''Literature/TroubledBlood'', is 944 pages in hardcover, 50% bigger than the fourth Strike novel and twice as long as any of the first three. |
| 65 | * Creator/JamesEllroy's ''Literature/LAConfidential'' is just barely short of 500 pages, but is still pretty fast paced with its many characters all ending up with some important role in the story. His next book, ''Literature/WhiteJazz'', was originally around 700 pages. When the publisher asked Ellroy to trim it down, he responded by removing every single word that could even remotely be considered extraneous, resulting in a 350-something page book which is insanely dense and has to be read incredibly carefully. There are even a few conversations where it takes quite a while to get any hints outside of the dialogue itself about who's talking. |
| 66 | * Creator/JamesJoyce: |
| 67 | ** ''Literature/{{Ulysses}}'' - nearly 1000 pages with notes, and you’d better believe you need them. |
| 68 | ** ''Literature/FinnegansWake'' -- not as long (628 pages), but just as difficult to read. |
| 69 | * Anything by Creator/JamesMichener, notably ''Centennial''. 1200 pages. Mr. Michener's writing is entertaining, but it's true that his later books should be under the by-line [[ShownTheirWork "James Michener and his Research Team".]] |
| 70 | ** His books also tend to span a large number of characters and/or time periods, so there are some nicely isolated sections, even if you lose some of the recurring themes from doing so. You might not be able to take a small part out of ''Space'' too easily, but some chapters of ''The Source'' can be taken out to (say) get a class full of high school students to get a feel for David's Israel and just how much sleuth work archaeologists have done on it. |
| 71 | * A full edition of Jean de La Fontaine's fables, with large illustrations by Gustave Dore, can become a hefty 900-page hardback. |
| 72 | * Creator/JinYong specialised in long novels. His longest are ''Literature/TheDeerAndTheCauldron'' (over 1,230,000 Chinese characters) and ''Literature/DemiGodsAndSemiDevils'' (over 1,211,000 Chinese characters). |
| 73 | * John [=MacGregor=], an art historian with a psychology degree, published a 720-page oversized book about Darger's life and work; ''Literature/InTheRealmsOfTheUnreal''. Crammed with Mac's own speculations and ramblings, it's quite a doorstopper in its own right. |
| 74 | * Creator/JohnRingo's novels tend to be somewhat long but not long enough to qualify, in general; however, the last two books of the original set for the ''Literature/LegacyOfTheAldenata'' series, ''Hell's Faire'' and ''When the Devil Dances'', were originally to be one novel. The events of 9/11 threw off Ringo's muse, [[WordOfGod according to him in the afterword for HF]], and the work was broken up to get a book to the printers before it got ridiculously late (instead of the actual somewhat late). |
| 75 | * All of Creator/KenFollett's historical epics, including ''Literature/ThePillarsOfTheEarth'', its sequel ''Literature/WorldWithoutEnd'', and the two (so far) books of ''Literature/TheCenturyTrilogy''. ''World Without End'' is the worst offender in this regard, clocking in over 1200 pages in paperback, perhaps fitting the book's title. |
| 76 | * The books Creator/KyougokuNatsuhiko, a Japanese mystery writer, wrote, are nothing to sneeze at either: ''Tesso no Ori'' (''鉄鼠の檻'') is 826 pages long, ''Jorōgumo no Kotowari'' (''絡新婦の理'') is 829 pages long, ''Nuribotoke no Utage, Utage no Shitaku'' (''塗仏の宴 宴の支度'') and ''Nuribotoke no Utage, Utage no Shimatsu'' (''塗仏の宴 宴の始末''), a novel in two volumes, is 1248 pages long in total. |
| 77 | * When Creator/LRonHubbard wasn't busy founding religions, he was writing tons and tons of science fiction. Sometimes all in the same book. |
| 78 | ** ''Literature/MissionEarth'' was published in ten parts and therefore advertised as a "dekalogy", a word coined by his publishing company specifically for its advertising. The hardcover pressing of the book's volumes add up to 3,992 pages. Folks, that's longer than all of ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' (1,178 pages) and ''Manga/{{Akira}}'' (2,182 pages) combined, with ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'' (607 pages in the original U.K. pressing) thrown in for good measure. |
| 79 | ** ''Literature/BattlefieldEarth'' is also over a thousand pages. [[Film/BattlefieldEarth The infamous movie]] covers only about the first third or half, depending on who you ask. |
| 80 | * Lance Parkin's ''[=AHistory=]'' UniverseConcordance for the Franchise/{{Whoniverse}} (originally published in 1996) started as a relatively modest 273-page volume chronicling [[Series/DoctorWho the TV series]] (which of course, ended in 1989) plus the ''[[Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures New Adventures]]'' and ''[[Literature/DoctorWhoMissingAdventures Missing Adventures]]'' novels. Increases in material (both in the widening of what "counted" and the continued production of more stories, including the revived series) led to subsequent editions becoming substantially heftier. The 2018 fourth edition comprises three volumes, each running to over 400 pages, in a valiant attempt to provide a timeline of the entire Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse. And they're still making more ''Who''... |
| 81 | * Creator/MarcelProust: |
| 82 | ** At 1.5 million words, ''À la Recherche du Temps Perdu,'' [[note]](''In Search of Lost Time'', earlier translated as ''Remembrance of Things Past'')[[/note]] holds the Guinness Book of Records title as Longest Novel. ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' did a sketch on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwAOc4g3K-g summarizing the whole thing in 15 seconds.]] Proust was still adding to it and revising the last three volumes at [[DiedDuringProduction the time of his death]]. One can only imagine how long the novel would have become if Proust had finished it to his liking. |
| 83 | * ''The Robber Bride'' and The Blind Assassin by Creator/MargaretAtwood, 637 pages and 528 pages respectively. |
| 84 | * Creator/MarkZDanielewski: |
| 85 | ** ''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'' is over 700 pages in paperback, all of them containing copious amounts of MindScrew. But some of those pages have one word on them, due to the UnconventionalFormatting, so it's more a Doorstopper in execution than in theory. |
| 86 | ** And then he published ''Literature/TheFamiliar'', which is 880 pages and weighs a hefty 3.6 pounds (it is printed on much thicker paper than ''House of Leaves'' was). It's exaggerated, considering that that was ''only the first'' book of a series of twenty-seven. Like this series? Reserve at least three shelves of your bookcase, and expect to only lift three of the twenty-seven at a time![[note]]As with ''House of Leaves'', Kindle / digital editions ''do'' exist, but due to the UnconventionalFormatting of the books, paper(back) versions are recommended over that.[[/note]] |
| 87 | * Most of Creator/MelanieRawn's works. She just doesn't do less than 800 pages in paperback with 8-point type, which just might be why you've never heard of her. Both ''Literature/DragonPrince'' and ''Literature/DragonStar'' are trilogies of incredible length, with a frustrating number of similarly-named characters. Not works for the faint of heart, or sound of mind. |
| 88 | * Minoru Kawakami is used as an example of why the "Light" in LightNovels does not actually refer to their usual length. It refers instead to the limits of what ''kanji'' can be used. |
| 89 | ** ''Literature/TheEndingChronicle'': Volumes 1-6 were all [[DividedForPublication divided into two or three parts for publication]], but volume 7 was released as a single, undivided volume of around 1000 pages. |
| 90 | ** ''Literature/HorizonInTheMiddleOfNowhere'' is almost certainly the light novel series with the longest volumes - [[DividedForPublication each of which is divided into two or three parts due to length.]] The parts peak at 1152 pages and average around 800. |
| 91 | * The works of Creator/MoXiangTongXiu: ''Literature/GrandmasterOfDemonicCultivationMoDaoZuShi'' has 113 chapters and 13 extras, ''Literature/HeavenOfficialsBlessingTianGuanCiFu'' has 244 chapters and 8 extras, and the main novel of ''Literature/TheScumVillainsSelfSavingSystemRenZhaFanpaiZijiuXitong'' has only 81 chapters, but it has 20 extras. |
| 92 | * More or less anything by Creator/NealStephenson after he gained any success. |
| 93 | ** ''Literature/{{Anathem}}'' is 1000 pages long, complete with a glossary, 3 appendices, and, in the promo copy sent to reviewers and book stores, actual, ''factual'' {{Feelies}}. |
| 94 | ** ''Literature/{{Cryptonomicon}}''. The fact that it's printed in a small typeface is a telling indication that you should be grateful that it's ''only'' 918 pages long. Some printings break the four-digit mark, coming in at 1054 pages. Latin America, thankfully, saw it released as three separate tomes. |
| 95 | ** Similarly, any volumes of his [[Literature/TheBaroqueCycle Baroque Cycle]], which each top 900 pages (admittedly because Stephenson really wanted either one enormous book or 8 novels, and instead we get a trilogy with each book containing 2-3 of the 'novels'). And if you want to see a ''real'' Door Stopper, Stephenson's handwritten manuscript (on display at the Science Fiction Museum in UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}}) is taller than he is. |
| 96 | ** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in ''Literature/TheBaroqueCycle'' where one character mentions using the in-universe ''Literature/{{Cryptonomicon}}'' (a text on cryptography) to hold a door open. |
| 97 | ** ''Literature/{{Reamde}}''. This door stopper clocks in at 1044 pages. |
| 98 | ** ''Literature/{{Seveneves}}'' is actually a slight departure from his record, but still a very heavy volume at 861 pages. |
| 99 | * The first two books in the Ender series by Creator/OrsonScottCard, ''Literature/EndersGame'' and ''Literature/SpeakerForTheDead'', are under 400 pages, but third and fourth books, ''Literature/{{Xenocide}}'' and ''Literature/ChildrenOfTheMind'', were originally one massive novel that would have been about 962 pages in paperback. Even with this division, the third book was still the longest in the main series at nearly 600 pages. |
| 100 | * ''Literature/PandorasStar'' and ''Literature/JudasUnchained'' by Creator/PeterFHamilton, each clocking in at around 1,200 pages (in paperback). One wonders why he didn't just make it a trilogy. |
| 101 | ** The same author's ''Literature/VoidTrilogy''--three books of 1200+ pages each. Really, though, the first two are [[http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20080309 more like one book. Trust the voice of experience.]] |
| 102 | *** Hamilton seems incapable of finishing his books properly (good books tho'). His only "ends" are the ends of series. Only ''The Evolutionary Void'' seems to avoid this. |
| 103 | ** ''Literature/TheNightsDawnTrilogy'' in the States had to be broken up into 6 volumes for its original print run (though still billed as a trilogy). The second US print and international versions had three books of 1200+ pages each; buy the complete trilogy and you'll need a truck to get it home. |
| 104 | ** Hamilton's 2012 standalone ''Great North Road'' is vast even by his usual standards, weighing in at over 1000 pages in hardback. By comparison, the Void Trilogy hardbacks had ~700. |
| 105 | * The Complete Works of Creator/{{Plato}}, in an incredibly small typeface, clock at just under 2000 pages on a page size just under A4. This is without any {{Footnote|Fever}}s or annotations. |
| 106 | * A more recent historian, Rick Perlstein, has written several tomes chronicling the rise of political conservatism in America (''Before the Storm'', ''Nixonland''). His most recent work, ''The Invisible Bridge'', runs to 860-odd pages, with Perlstein publishing his endnotes online. And Perlstein's confirmed there's at least one more book to come. |
| 107 | * Creator/RobertCoover: |
| 108 | ** ''Literature/TheBrunistDayOfWrath'', a sequel to the award-winning ''Literature/TheOriginOfTheBrunists'', is a whopping 1005 pages long. |
| 109 | ** ''Literature/ThePublicBurning'' is a little shorter at 544 pages. |
| 110 | * Roberto Bolaño's ''Literature/TheSavageDetectives'' and ''Literature/TwentySixSixtySix'' are 610 and 898 pages, respectively. |
| 111 | * Creator/RobertRMcCammon: |
| 112 | ** ''Literature/SwanSong''. The paperback edition is 956 pages. |
| 113 | ** ''The Queen of Bedlam'' is 656 pages in paperback. |
| 114 | ** ''Speaks the Nightbird'' is 816 pages and was originally released in two volumes. |
| 115 | * Creator/{{Servire}} published a 500+ page volume in 1970, titled ''Science Fiction {{Omnibus}}'', a Dutch translation of four American ScienceFiction {{Novel}}s; ''Literature/TheBigEye'' by Creator/MaxEhrlich, ''Literature/TheManWhoSoldTheMoon'' by Creator/RobertAHeinlein, ''Literature/{{Requiem}}'' by Creator/RobertAHeinlein, and ''Literature/PebbleInTheSky'' by Creator/IsaacAsimov. |
| 116 | * Creator/StephenKing can write short stories, short books, long books, and '''long''' books. |
| 117 | ** The later books of the epic ''Franchise/TheDarkTower'' are pretty long. The last two books are 800 and 1,100 pages, respectively. |
| 118 | ** How about the uncut version of ''Literature/TheStand'', which is 1,153 pages with 400 [[LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition extra pages]] added back in? |
| 119 | ** In the Netherlands, a woman pressed charges against a mail company because a copy of King’s ''Literature/{{IT}}'' '''killed her chihuahua''' when it dropped through the mail chute. The hardcover copy of ''IT'' is 1,135 pages long, and [[Film/It1990 both]] [[Film/It2017 adaptations]] had to be split into two parts to adequately convey the entire story. |
| 120 | ** ''Literature/UnderTheDome'' clocks in at 1,074 pages in hardcover. A 2014 mass-market paperback edition split it into two volumes, at over 600 pages each. |
| 121 | ** ''[[Literature/TheTommyknockers Tommyknockers]]'', ''Tommyknockers'' fell on the floor. Made a hole where there wasn't one before. |
| 122 | ** ''Literature/{{Insomnia}}'' could practically serve as a cure for that particular malady, being thick enough to knock the sufferer unconscious. |
| 123 | ** King himself has [[LampshadeHanging made light of the fact]] that his books tend to be long. When he announced that he would go into semi-retirement, he claimed that he had "killed enough trees." |
| 124 | * Creator/StephenieMeyer: |
| 125 | ** ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'', especially the later books. ''Literature/BreakingDawn'' takes the cake at 752 pages. |
| 126 | ** Her adult foray ''Literature/TheHost2008'' is no slouch either, having 619 pages. |
| 127 | * Anything written by the author Creator/TadWilliams end up like this. |
| 128 | ** ''To Green Angel Tower'' was so big, it had to be split into two parts when printed as a mass-market paperback. |
| 129 | ** The ''Literature/MemorySorrowAndThorn'' trilogy was released as twelve volumes in Finland. |
| 130 | ** The ''Literature/{{Otherland}}'' series of which there are four volumes. |
| 131 | * Creator/TamoraPierce started writing these after ''Harry Potter'' made publishers realize that long YA books ''can'' sell. The ''Literature/TrickstersDuet'' is about as long as the quartets despite being two books. The ''Literature/BekaCooper'' books are longer yet, with ''Mastiff'' clocking in at 500+ pages. Her later ''Literature/{{Circleverse}}'' books are pretty long, too. |
| 132 | * Creator/ThomasPynchon: |
| 133 | ** ''Literature/GravitysRainbow'' mixes Door Stopper (760 pages) with MindScrew for a tome you ''will not'' be able to finish. (Which is why it didn’t win the Pulitzer Prize—half the committee wanted it to win, the other half couldn't finish it.) |
| 134 | ** Pynchon's later novels ''Literature/MasonAndDixon'' and ''Literature/AgainstTheDay'' are 773 and 1220 pages, respectively. |
| 135 | ** His first, ''Literature/{{V}}'', is a bit more concise at 492 pages. |
| 136 | * Pretty much any fiction work that Creator/TomClancy ever wrote exceeded 400 pages, and sometimes by a healthy degree. The worst offender is Literature/TheBearAndTheDragon, which clocked in at ''1,028'' pages on hardback. |
| 137 | * Creator/UnicornPress published a [[{{Omnibus}} 4-in-1 volume]] with over 900 pages in 1950, including ''Literature/BlandBeginning'', ''Literature/PebbleInTheSky'', ''Literature/JustForTheBride'', and ''Literature/TheOwlAndThePussycat''. |
| 138 | * Most of Wayne Johnston's novels are doorstoppers - ''The Colony of Unrequited Dreams'' is over 600 pages... in trade paperback, and they look much longer than that in hardcover. And they are very heavy to lift. |
| 139 | * Creator/WilliamGaddis' ''Literature/TheRecognitions'' and ''{{Literature/JR}}'' are 956 and 726 pages, respectively. |
| 140 | * Dr. William Samuel Sadler wrote some forty or fifty books which include ''Modern Psychiatry'' (896 pages) and ''Theory and Practice of Psychiatry'' (1231 pages). |
| 141 | |
| 142 | !!By Title: |
| 143 | * ''Literature/OneQEightyFour'': The original Japanese is 1,600 pages long and the English translation is 1,100 pages with fairly small text. |
| 144 | * ''Literature/OneThousandAndOneMoviesYouMustSeeBeforeYouDie'' is 960 pages and has been updated annually since 2003. It has since gotten spin-offs regarding other media, including [[Literature/OneThousandAndOneVideoGamesYouMustSeeBeforeYouDie video games]], all of whom are just as long. |
| 145 | * ''101 Years' Entertainment'' (edited by Ellery Queen) contains 995 pages of detective stories of varying quality. |
| 146 | * George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff's ''All and Everything'' spends 1266 pages attempting to live up to its title. |
| 147 | * ''Literature/AmericanGods'' by Creator/NeilGaiman is 629 pages. |
| 148 | * ''A Moment in the Sun'' by John Sayles has 968 pages. |
| 149 | * ''Literature/AnAmericanTragedy'' by Theodore Dreiser, with more than 800 pages, is a classic example. |
| 150 | * The novel ''...And Ladies of the Club'' is over 1,000 pages long, supposedly took the author over 50 years to write, and is about, well, the founding members of a ladies book club in Ohio from post-Civil War to the 1930's. It's much more readable than it sounds. |
| 151 | * The single volume edition of ''Annals of the Former World'' by John [=McPhee=] has 720 pages. |
| 152 | * ''Literature/ApproachesToScienceFiction'': Even with restricting itself to [[AdaptationDistillation excerpts]] of the novel-length fiction, this book adds up to over 570 pages. |
| 153 | * Sir Richard Francis Burton's translation of the ''Literature/ArabianNights'' -- sixteen massive volumes. The Project Gutenberg .txt files together weigh in at nearly 14 megabytes of text! It is said that one cannot read all of it in one sitting because the reader will [[GoMadFromTheRevelation go insane from the sheer majesty of it all]]. Maybe there's some truth to that -- it's probably because the reader would experience massive sleep deprivation in the process. |
| 154 | ** The earliest manuscripts of the ''Literature/ArabianNights'', from the 13th century, contained a manageable 20 stories or so, all folktales, divided into less than 300 nights. The editors of 18th- and 19th-century Egyptian versions, driven to "complete" the 1001 nights, kept adding a mishmash of folktales from various sources, erotic stories, literary works, legends, until the result was a sprawling, heterogeneous monster. |
| 155 | * ''Artamène ou le Grand Cyrus'' is 13,095 pages in 10 parts of 3 volumes each and approximately 1.95 million words long, and was the former top of Wikipedia's list of longest novels. |
| 156 | * Creator/VoxDay's fantasy series ''Literature/TheArtsOfDarkAndLight''. At 900-some small-type pages, ''A Throne of Bones'' (the first volume) can certainly match the great fantasy writers in bulk. ''A Sea of Skulls'' is somewhat shorter... which the author has jokingly(?) promised to remedy by releasing [[GeorgeLucasAlteredVersion an expanded edition]]. |
| 157 | * Creator/MaryGentle's ''Literature/AshASecretHistory'' is one volume of over 1100 pages, although it was split into four for its US paperback printing. |
| 158 | * Four of the six books of James Clavell's ''Literature/AsianSaga'' are over 1000 pages long, including ''[[Literature/AsianSaga Shogun]]''. The other two (as it happens, the first two to be written) are over 500. |
| 159 | * The Light Novel editions of ''Literature/AvestaOfBlackAndWhite'' end up as pretty chunky at over 500 pages each spread across 4 volumes to tell a continuous story of just a few characters. Not surprising given that it is written by the same author that made ''VisualNovel/DiesIrae''. |
| 160 | * ''Literature/BattleRoyale'' is 619 pages long, and it's mostly about students killing each other. |
| 161 | * In France, the immensely prestigious critical editions of the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade should be this... However, the print is tiny, and the pages are Bible paper, which means that although you do get a huge amount of text, they probably wouldn't make very good doorstoppers... |
| 162 | * ''Literature/TheBonfireOfTheVanities'' at just over 700 pages usually, and another example here that was originally published serially (though it was revised for its release as a novel). |
| 163 | * Miyuki Miyabe's ''Literature/BraveStory'' is, at least in its English translation, 816 pages. Sadly, [[ProlongedPrologue it takes until page 222 to really get into the story proper]]. |
| 164 | * ''Literature/TheBrightestShadow'': The first book of the series is fairly long, clocking in at 687 pages in paperback, with the others planned to be the same length. |
| 165 | * Naguib Mahfouz's ''The Cairo Trilogy'', which consists of ''Palace Walk, Palace of Desire'', and ''Sugar Street'', has 1368 pages. |
| 166 | * ''Literature/TheCanterburyTales''. Notably, it’s still a Doorstopper even though Chaucer was a long way from completing it when he DiedDuringProduction. Each pilgrim was supposed to tell four stories: not all of them got to tell one, and none of them got past their first. However, it’s only a Doorstopper when it's kept in verse. A prose edition is about 370 pages. |
| 167 | * John Lanchester's huge state-of-the-nation novel, ''Literature/{{Capital}}''. |
| 168 | * ''The Great Book of Amber'', by Creator/RogerZelazny, is actually ten fairly small books making up the entirety of ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfAmber'' series. However, unless you're prepared to search, this is the only version actually available and has been the only one in print for years, except for the two-volume book club edition. Clocks in at somewhere around 1200 pages if I'm not mistaken. All the more irritating because neither the omnibus nor the individual novels were available as ebooks until April 2020. |
| 169 | * The ''Literature/ChungKuo'' series of science fiction novels by David Wingrove. First published as eight hefty volumes of 600-700 pages each, it is due to be re-released in 2010 as ''eighteen'' books of presumably more reasonable size. It is eighteen because the original series was supposed to be ''nine'' books, but Wingrove's publisher [[ScrewedByTheNetwork refused to publish the ninth]], forcing him to combine the last two books. The new release will include the complete nine books at two volumes per book... |
| 170 | * Shelby Foote's ''The Civil War: A Narrative'' has three volumes, each running to about 1,000 pages. Foote's work is so long and densely detailed (but also well-written and enjoyable) that individual chapters have been published as standalone works, eg. ''The Stars in Their Courses'' about Gettysburg. |
| 171 | * ''Literature/{{Clarissa}}'' by Samuel Richardson. At 1,500+ pages, it is ''the'' longest published novel originally written in English. |
| 172 | * ''Literature/CloudCuckooLand'' is just over 600 pages. |
| 173 | * ''The Collected Works of Creator/WilliamShakespeare'' clocks in at 1448 pages. Very thin pages, everything double-columned. This is why in many times any "complete works" of his get separated into multiple volumes. |
| 174 | * Possibly the ultimate single-volume Doorstopper: [[http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/25748 Someone]] has published Creator/AgathaChristie's ''The Complete Literature/MissMarple'' in one volume of 4,032 pages massing 8kg! To visualize that, the book is ''over a foot thick.'' |
| 175 | * The 1975 edition of ''The Complete Tales and Poems of Creator/EdgarAllanPoe'' clocks in at 1026 pages. |
| 176 | * ''Literature/CrescentCity'': The first two books are pretty hefty, with both of them being over 700 pages long; ''House of Earth and Blood'' is 816 pages and ''House of Sky and Breath'' is 768 pages. Usually with Maas' books, the first few novels are shorter and the page count doesn't balloon until later installments, although ''Crescent City'' is her first series aimed explicitly at an adult demographic rather than young adult, so that could explain the increased length. |
| 177 | * ''Literature/CultivationChatGroup'' has 3,165 chapters and 8 side stories. Yes, you read that right: it has over ''three thousand'' chapters. |
| 178 | * If you'd print out the web-published AlternateHistory ''Literature/DecadesOfDarkness'', you'd need more than 1800 sheets of paper (using an average-sized font and paper). |
| 179 | * ''Literature/DemonSwordMaiden'' has 19 volumes and 2,425 chapters. |
| 180 | * ''Literature/DesolateEra'' has 45 volumes and 1,450 chapters. |
| 181 | * ''Devta'', a work serialised in a Pakistani suspense magazine for 33 years and spanning ''11.2 million'' (Urdu) words in 56 volumes, or about 200,000 per volume; formerly on the Wikipedia list before someone pointed out that serials weren't counted. Details on the work in English are scarce, though it apparently focuses on a man who gains telepathic powers. |
| 182 | * Samuel Delany's ''Literature/{{Dhalgren}}'' runs to about 800 pages. |
| 183 | * Many of Creator/CliveCussler's ''Literature/DirkPittAdventures'' novels are this. From ''Treasure'' onward, they're routinely over 500 pages long. |
| 184 | * The omnibus editions of ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' (collecting three novels on a theme, such as three about the Lancre Witches, Rincewind, or the gods) tend to be this. Around ''Literature/GoingPostal'' onward, some of the the individual novels count as well, breaking the 500-page mark. ''Literature/{{Snuff}}'' is about the same thickness as an omnibus of ''Literature/TheColourOfMagic'' and ''Literature/TheLightFantastic''. |
| 185 | * ''Literature/TheDistinguishedCuteMaster'' has 1,286 chapters. |
| 186 | * ''Literature/DonQuixote'' (''El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de La Mancha'') by Miguel de Cervantes is quite long, since it was originally two volumes which are now usually printed together. |
| 187 | * The ''Literature/{{Dragonlance}} Trilogy'' has been combined into a single doorstopper. ''The Annotated Dragonlance'' is even ''worse'' because of all the, y'know, [[FootnoteFever annotations and stuff]]. |
| 188 | * While not as hefty as some other entries on the list, ''Literature/TheDreamMerchant'' still manages to clock in a respectable 640 pages. |
| 189 | * ''Literature/DreamOfTheRedChamber'', written in China during the mid-18th century by Cao Xueqin, has one hundred and twenty chapters, each of which lasting several pages. That marks the total page count at the hundreds at least, if not exceeding a thousand. |
| 190 | * ''Literature/DunctonWood'' chronicles the ''entire'' life story of a pair of moles, from their birth to their death, so it's no wonder it's around 800 pages. |
| 191 | * ''Franchise/{{Dune}}'' by Frank Herbert (though the second installment, ''Dune Messiah'', is an exception). There's an omnibus edition of the first three novels, called "The Great Dune Trilogy". With appendices etc., it clocks in at a reasonable 912 pages. |
| 192 | ** The [[Literature/{{Dune}} first book]] is often printed on bible-style thin paper, with a small font size. If you buy the rest of the books from the same publisher, more often than not, the first book doesn't stand out in size. Indeed, it is often at size parity with ''Literature/DuneMessiah'' and smaller than ''Literature/ChildrenOfDune''. Pick it up, however, and you'll be surprised at its weight. |
| 193 | *** Get it in large print and laugh helplessly as it tears a hole through your bag like a brick through wet tissue paper! |
| 194 | ** The first book was originally conceived and serialized (in ''Analog'' magazine) as two separate novels, ''Dune World'' and ''The Prophet of Dune''. The book seamlessly combines both texts and adds a whole wad of appendices. |
| 195 | *** ''Dune Messiah'' (serialized in ''Galaxy'') is actually only slightly shorter than the first two serials, but ended up being published as a standalone. ''Children of Dune'' (back to ''Analog''[[note]]The last of the ''Dune'' novels to be serialized[[/note]]) had much bigger installments, often leaving space for only a handful of short stories and articles. |
| 196 | ** According to legend, when the Dune film was being developed, the first draft of the screenplay, written by Frank Herbert himself, was the size of a phone book... |
| 197 | * ''Literature/EarthsChildren'': |
| 198 | ** ''The Shelters of Stone'' could be at least 200 pages shorter by the judicious use of the sentence, "And Ayla introduced herself again." ''Every'' time she meets someone she has to tell her whole backstory. Another few hundred, if you'd leave out the sex scenes. But then, the books wouldn't have become the best sellers they were. You could chop a good 50 pages off of the series just by omitting all [[IKEAErotica descriptions of genitals.]] |
| 199 | ** ''The Land of Painted Caves'', the sixth and final novel in the series, would be half as long if Ayla hadn't introduced herself, explained her backstory, and explained how she got Wolf every time she met someone new, and if every cave wasn't described in minute detail despite them all being fairly similar. |
| 200 | * A complete edition of Michel de Montaigne's ''Essays'', containing [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin essays]] long and short on nearly every subject, is a brick of over 1300 pages. Of special note is the essay "Apology for Raimond Sebond", which at over 70,000 words is the length of a novel. |
| 201 | * Creator/PhilipKDick's unfinished ''Exegesis'' was said to be around 8,000 pages long before he died. ''Eight '''thousand'''''. [[note]]It would have been an Olympic Record but he failed the drugs test.[[/note]] |
| 202 | * ''Literature/TheFaerieQueene'' by Edmund Spenser; over 1000 pages of verse poetry. And, like Chaucer, he didn't get close to finishing it before [[DiedDuringProduction dying]]; he planned 24 'books' and finished only 6 of them. |
| 203 | * ''Literature/TheFatalDream'' by Ian Hastings is 806 pages long. |
| 204 | * The historical romance novel by Kathleen Winsor, ''Literature/ForeverAmber'', runs to over 900 pages. |
| 205 | * John Galsworthy's Literature/TheForsyteSaga, published in 1999 by Oxford University Press, has 872 pages. |
| 206 | * ''Literature/FromHereToEternity'', from ''Creator/JamesJones'', is over 800 pages long. Just the description of a poker game is close to 20 pages. Its famous film adaptation, however, is 118 minutes long, so not overly long. |
| 207 | * Creator/RyuMurakami's dystopian epic ''Literature/FromTheFatherlandWithLove'' is 672 pages long. |
| 208 | * ''[[http://stolen-projects.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/game-design-companion-a-critical-analysis-of-wario-land-4 Game Design Companion: A critical analysis of Wario Land 4]]'' is a 600-page eBook that pretty much does ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. |
| 209 | * ''Literature/GodClads'' is an ongoing story that is currently around 1656 pages long or around 460 thousand words and shows no sign of stopping any time soon. |
| 210 | * ''Literature/TheGoldfinch'' by Donna Tartt is 864 pages long. |
| 211 | * The ''Literature/{{Gone}}'' books. While average-sized for most adult novels, at 500 to 600 pages apiece, the books are gigantic for young adult novels. They steadily decreased in length as the series drew to its conclusion, however. |
| 212 | * ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'' by Margaret Mitchell is just over 1000 pages. |
| 213 | * ''Literature/TheGoodSoldierSvejk'' by Jaroslav Hašek is over 700 pages long, and it's not even finished, due to [[DiedDuringProduction Hašek's death]]. |
| 214 | * ''Googol'' by H.D.Klein, 1056 pages (in German). Now I wonder whether the title is a lampshade...Oh, and it has a follow-up, ''Googolplex'' (but with meagre 592 pages). |
| 215 | * Mervyn Peake's ''Literature/{{Gormenghast}}'' novels are available in omnibus form, which is in the neighbourhood of 1000 pages of novel and 150-odd of critical essays. He had planned to write seven volumes, [[DiedDuringProduction but couldn't finish them]]. |
| 216 | * ''Literature/TheGreatSFStories'': Each of the {{omnibus}} volumes exceeded six hundred pages; ''Third Series'' is the shortest, due to omitting five stories. |
| 217 | * From Creator/TimothyZahn's ''Literature/TheHandOfThrawn'', ''Vision of the Future'' clocks in at 720 pages in one paperback version, though other versions and the hardcover aren't quite as pagy. Shorter than most of these, but that's the longest novel of the Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse to date. The German version was split into two separate books. |
| 218 | * Richard Bausch's ''Hello to the Cannibals'' is 840 pages long. |
| 219 | * The ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'' books, particularly compared to similar middle grade books (and even other books by Creator/RickRiordan). All of them are over 500 pages in hardcover and over 600 in paperback; the longest, ''The House of Hades'', is 597 pages in hardcover. This is mainly because they juggle the POV of many different characters compared to a single characters POV. In comparison, its predecessor, ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'', range from about 300-400 pages depending on the edition and its successor, ''Literature/TheTrialsOfApollo'', are a bit longer but still all come in under 500 pages. |
| 220 | * The ''Literature/HonorHarrington'' books by Creator/DavidWeber. They start at 300 pages of character development, climax, cleanup (and lots of death), and spiral into 900+ page space soap operas filled with dating troubles, feudal succession, poker games and political intrigue. And that's ''abridged'' versions! ''Ashes of Victory'', ticking at 800+ pages as it is, had the whole subplot about Esther [=McQueen=]'s rebellion cut out from the draft. It was later published as a separate novella, in an anthology. The series then split into three branches, each one dealing with various subplots happening at roughly the same time. Each one a doorstopper in its own right, and the only way to know everything is to read them all. |
| 221 | * Altogether, the ''Literature/HyperionCantos'' clocks in at over 1700 pages. It weighs 2.3 kilograms in paperback. |
| 222 | ** ''The Endymion Omnibus'' by Creator/DanSimmons, which contains ''Endymion'' and its sequel ''The Rise of Endymion'', is a few pages shy of the 1000-page mark, and definitely of doorstopper thickness. |
| 223 | * Creator/JacekDukaj's ''Ice'' has over one thousand pages. And through most of the book the main character doesn't believe he exists. Yay. |
| 224 | * ''Literature/{{Imajica}}'', by Creator/CliveBarker, also had to be split into two volumes when released as a paperback. On the second printing. The first printing that was in one single book fairly quickly split itself into two volumes. |
| 225 | * Judy Jones and William Wilson's ''An Incomplete Education'' contains 638 pages worth of everything you need to know to fake being "well-rounded." |
| 226 | * ''Literature/InfiniteJest'' by Creator/DavidFosterWallace. 1,079 pages, including 96 pages of [[FootnoteFever footnotes]]. Infinite indeed. And woe betide you if you skip the footnotes; important plot points occur there, so if you don’t read them and read them carefully, you’ll be hopelessly lost. (If you do read them, [[MindScrew you will also be lost]], but not hopelessly.) |
| 227 | * All four books in Christopher Paolini's ''Literature/InheritanceCycle'' series, with the final book, ''[[TitleDrop Inheritance]]'', being 849 pages in hardcover. And this was after it was broken off from its first half, ''Brisingr'', which was 748 pages long. Paolini originally wanted to publish them together, but realized that meant the book would have been over 1500 pages. Hence, ''Inheritance Trilogy'' [[TrilogyCreep became]] ''Inheritance Cycle''. |
| 228 | * ''The Invention of Hugo Cabret'' by Brian Selznick is 533 pages. An homage to silent movies, the novel seamlessly alternates between prose and illustrations to the point where if you skip the pictures you will not know what is going on. As a result, it is the longest book to win the Caldecott Medal (best illustrations), an award that normally goes to picture books. |
| 229 | * "Jean Christophe", by French writer Romain Rolland, has ten volumes, and a total of more than 2,000 pages. |
| 230 | * ''Jerusalem'' by Creator/AlanMoore is over 600,000 words and 1200 pages, there is also a 3-volume edition. |
| 231 | * ''Literature/JonathanStrangeAndMrNorrell''. To the point that [[WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows internet reviewers]] [[http://twitter.com/ShadowTodd/status/241295047159578624 use it to simulate]] "Death-by-hitting-yourself-with-a-book". |
| 232 | * ''The Joy of Cooking'' is one of the most famous cookbooks in America. The 75th anniversary edition is over 1000 pages long. Unlike many other cookbooks of the time, it was a much more foundational book, focused on easier, relatively quick recipes that would be appropriate for the average family. It also includes general advice on different ingredients, how to use cooking utensils, how to store foods, and other things beginner cooks would need to learn, as well as first-person conversational narration from the author (Irma Rombauer), although this was dropped in some later editions. |
| 233 | * Literature/TheLivingDead by Creator/GeorgeRomero and Daniel Kraus is a ZombieApocalypse epic that covers multiple characters during a 15 year period. It is 656 pages long, with the last 20 pages being an afterword by the author detailing the creative process of writing the book. |
| 234 | * The Literature/KhaavrenRomances are one big {{homage}} to Creator/AlexandreDumas, so they are naturally ''very'' long. ''Literature/TheViscountOfAdrilankha'' in particular is technically a trilogy, but the chapter numbering continues between them, so that by the end you have a 3-volume, 102[[labelnote:*]]6 times [[ArcNumber 17]][[/labelnote]]-chapter epic where each ''third'' of it is at least 500 or 600 pages. |
| 235 | * ''The Kindly Ones'' by Jonathan Littell (not to be confused with the ''Sandman'' collection above) clocks in at 992 pages in its English translation. |
| 236 | * The books of ''Literature/TheKingkillerChronicle'' are extremely long. The hardcover version of ''Literature/TheWiseMansFear'' is 994 pages long. The author, Creator/PatrickRothfuss, mentioned in one of his blogs while revising the second book before publication he'd added ''60 000 words'' to ''Literature/TheWiseMansFear''. That's as long as ''one'' regular-length novel. |
| 237 | * ''Literature/TheKingsAvatar'' has 1,728 chapters. |
| 238 | * Set aside some time if you're going to read ''Literature/KushielsLegacy''- ''each book'' of the first trilogy is over 700 pages. |
| 239 | * The individual ''Literature/LandOfOz'' stories written by Creator/LFrankBaum don't qualify (they're each only about 150 pages long), but ''Treasury of Oz'', which is an {{Omnibus}} edition of all 14 Oz novels by Baum, is about 25cm high, 18cm wide, and 4cm think. That's a book that's nearly standard A4 paper-sized and with 784 pages. And probably weighs more than most household appliances. |
| 240 | * ''Literature/TheLanguageOfLiteratureGrade6'': There's over one thousand pages in this book, not including the index and the copyright pages. |
| 241 | * ''A Lanterna na Popa'' [[note]](Portuguese: "The Lantern in the Stern")[[/note]], autobiography of Brazilian economist and politician Roberto Campos. The unwieldy '94 original release is 1417 pages long. Later editions split it in two volumes. |
| 242 | * James Tyler Kent's ''Lectures on Homeopathic Medicine'' has 982 pages of debatable worth. |
| 243 | * ''Li Zi Cheng'' by Yao Xue Yin is currently the longest novel written in modern Chinese. It has well over ''three million'' Chinese characters. |
| 244 | * Graphic novel ''Lighter Than my Shadow'' by Katie Green is over 500 pages long, as well as having A4 pages. |
| 245 | * ''Literature/LordOfMysteries'' has 1,394 chapters and 36 extras. |
| 246 | * Creator/JRRTolkien's ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' , internally divided into ''Books I-VI'' and Appendices (which were adapted into ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' trilogy , respectively, ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower''), has about 1000 pages. Its size, conjoined with the post-war paper shortages, was one of the factors contributing to it being DividedForPublication (split into three volumes, two "books" to each) to reduce the financial risk for the publisher. Technically, it is six books and an appendix volume. The hardcover anniversary set, which is divided into seven volumes, can actually stop a door, as can the new 1,178-page single-volume edition. |
| 247 | * Gertrude Stein's ''The Making of Americans'' clocks in at a solid 925 pages, and also has the benefit of being written in abstract prose that's completely incomprehensible. |
| 248 | * Creator/StevenErikson's ''Literature/MalazanBookOfTheFallen'' series contains no novel of less than 200,000 words, which at a minimum means 600 pages. Erikson {{lampshade}}s this in an author's note in the ninth book when he sarcastically notes that he is "not known for writing door-stopper tomes". |
| 249 | * Creator/RobertMusil's ''Literature/TheManWithoutQualities'' is 1152 pages. The original German language is 2160 pages. |
| 250 | * ''Literature/MaradoniaSaga'': ''Maradonia and the Seven Bridges'' is over 800 pages, and [[SmallNameBigEgo Gloria Tesch]] likes to brag about it, calling herself the world's youngest novelist. Too bad it'd be a lot shorter if it weren't for the huge typeface, the terrible formatting, and the {{padding}}. |
| 251 | * ''Literature/MarienbadMyLove'' by Creator/MarkLeach claims to be the world's longest novel, weighing in at over 100 million characters, 17 million words, over 10,000 pages and 65 pounds across 17 volumes. Even more: the novel's title is 6,700 words long. It contains a 4.4-million-letter noun, "The Holy Jah" for short, as well as a 3 million-word-long sentence. |
| 252 | * Any one book of Colleen [=McCullough's=] ''Literature/MastersOfRome'' series is quite an intimidating sight, and the series is now seven books and counting. They're not ''quite'' as bad as they look due to the sizeable introductions, afterwards, and glossaries, but each story is still 950-1050 pages. |
| 253 | * ''Literature/{{Middlemarch}}'' goes up to book VIII, and each and every section is 100+ pages long. |
| 254 | * ''Literature/LesMiserables'' by Creator/VictorHugo ranks as one of the longest novels ever made, to the point where fans refer to the unabridged version as "the Brick." It comes in at a whopping 545,925 words in the English translation, which has caused many to wonder if he was paid by the word.[[note]]in case you're wondering, while Victor Hugo had been paid by the word earlier in his career, by this time he was not![[/note]] |
| 255 | ** In one section, Hugo describes, in lavish detail (well, lavish might not fit) a crack in the wall, through which a character looks. This description takes up at least a page and a half in the abridged version alone. |
| 256 | ** The unabridged version contains a 50-page essay on the battle of Waterloo. The reveal that is important to the plot appears on the last page. |
| 257 | ** Another essay is about Parisian Sewers, including history and network. Again, it becomes relevant later in the plot. |
| 258 | ** Hugo spends at least 50 pages near the beginning describing a picnic with Fantine and her friends that has no bearing on the rest of the plot. |
| 259 | ** The book opens with several chapters describing the life of the Bishop of Digne, all of which could have been summed up with the sentence "the Bishop was a good man". Indeed, far clearer and more succinct characterization is done in the two minutes he's onstage in the [[Theatre/LesMiserables musical adaptation]] than in this entire section. We don't actually meet the ''protagonist'' of the story (Jean Valjean) until the end of this section, when he enters Digne (the village where the Bishop lives). |
| 260 | * ''Literature/MobyDick'' attempted to be a lot of things about whales, including a food blog, a bestiary, a travelogue, history and oh, a story with a plot. It also delves into geography, philosophy, religion, race relations, the nature of civilization versus savagery...there are some scholars who think Melville intended the book to be an 'encyclopedia of everything he knew'. An abridged version for kids probably fits onto ten pages - that ratio should be a record for any doorstopper on this list. |
| 261 | * Sir Thomas Malory's ''Literature/LeMorteDarthur'' is over 900 pages, divided into ''507 chapters'', admittedly short ones by modern standards. |
| 262 | * Creator/TyraBanks' novel ''Literature/{{Modelland}}'' is 576 pages. |
| 263 | * Eiji Yoshikawa's ''Literature/{{Musashi}}'', a fictionalized version of the life of UsefulNotes/MiyamotoMusashi, is 970 pages long, typically printed on unusually thin paper or as three separate volumes. It was originally a multi-year newspaper serial. |
| 264 | * ''Literature/MyBestScienceFictionStory'': The original hardcover version clocks in at around 560 pages, depending on how you count the ''i'' - ''xiv'' pages. |
| 265 | * ''Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of Creator/HPLovecraft'' has 895 pages. |
| 266 | * ''Literature/NineStarHegemonBodyArt'' has 4,329 chapters and is still on-going. |
| 267 | * Any Norton Anthology. The print is microscopic, and yet they could still be used as bludgeons. ''The Norton Anthology of English Literature'' (Volume 1) in paperback runs to 2518 pages of thin paper, not counting indexes and appendices. |
| 268 | ** The ''Norton Introduction to Literature'': the ''shorter'' tenth edition is still 1844 pages. |
| 269 | * ''Literature/ThePenguinScienceFictionOmnibus'': The {{Omnibus}} itself has 592 pages, not including the introduction and copyright pages. |
| 270 | * ''Literature/PerryRhodan'' has to be the ultimate example. An on-going German science-fiction EPIC that calls itself the biggest science-fiction series for a reason. Since 1961 there's been over 2700 (in 2013) weekly novella-sized, pulp booklets released. These issues have been collected in books of about 400 pages long each. There's been over 100 of these books released and that still only covers about a third of the whole series. And those books are shortened quite a bit. |
| 271 | * Samantha Shannon's ''Literature/ThePrioryOfTheOrangeTree'' is 830 pages. Reportedly, she's working on another book that takes place within the same universe... that will be ''even longer''. |
| 272 | * The original novel of ''Literature/ThePrincessBride'' is stated in character to be William Goldman's "good bits" [[TheAbridgedSeries abridgment]] of a 1000-page novel. |
| 273 | * Then there's Vincent Bugliosi's ''Reclaiming History'', an exhaustive debunking of every conceivable [[WhoShotJFK JFK Assassination conspiracy theory]] that runs to a staggering 1,648 pages, plus an additional ''1,000 pages'' worth of endnotes on an attached disc. |
| 274 | * ''Literature/TheRecordOfUnusualCreatures'' has 1,773 chapters. |
| 275 | * ''Literature/RedQueen'''s ''War Storm'' is 662 pages in hardcover. |
| 276 | * ''Literature/ReleaseThatWitch'' has 1,498 chapters. |
| 277 | * While most of the books in ''Literature/TheRiftwarCycle'' do not qualify, the first book, ''Magician'', had to be divided into two books, ''Magician: Apprentice'', and ''Magician: Master'' in paperback format due to its length. And that was ''after'' the editor told the author to shorten the story by 50,000 words. The Author's Preferred Edition, which has the 50,000 words of various minor scenes put back in, definitely qualifies. |
| 278 | * ''Ripped from a Dream: Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Omnibus'' collects the first three of Black Flame's ''Nightmare on Elm Street'' novels (''[[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Suffer the Children]], [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Dreamspawn]]'' and ''[[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Protegé]]''). Each individual book is a little over 400 pages long, so that's a lot of Freddy (or not, in the case of ''Dreamspawn''). |
| 279 | * William Shirer's ''Literature/TheRiseAndFallOfTheThirdReich'' is about 1143 pages long, with the index and footnotes adding 102 more pages. |
| 280 | * The Pacific Theater equivalent of Shirer is John Toland's ''The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945'', which weighs in at 954 pages in its first edition. |
| 281 | * All three books in ''Literature/TheRiyriaRevelations'' series, clocking in at 704 pages, 816 pages, and 960 pages in paperback, due to the series having been originally planned as six e-books. Interestingly, possibly due to a different binding technique, the second and third books, despite being longer than the first, are slightly ''thinner'' than book one in paperback. |
| 282 | * ''Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms'' typically runs to over 2300 pages. |
| 283 | * Vikram Chandra's very good crime thriller epic ''Sacred Games'' is the novel equivalent of a Bollywood movie. (Over 1080 pages.) |
| 284 | * The novels in Julian May's ''Literature/SagaOfTheExiles'' and ''Literature/GalacticMilieu'' (four in the former and three in the latter) are all rather long (over 400 pages each); the two books set between them, ''Surveillance'' and ''Metaconcert'' are also lengthy... and in the UK they were combined into one shockingly long volume... |
| 285 | * ''Literature/ScienceFictionSpecial'': Each book is an {{Omnibus}}, and tends to run to high page counts: |
| 286 | ** ''Science Fiction Special 1'' is made from three novels: 192 pages, 180 pages, and 175 pages respectively, totaling 547 pages. |
| 287 | ** ''Science Fiction Special 2'' is made from three novels: 192 pages, 192 pages, and 188 pages respectively, totaling 572 pages. |
| 288 | ** ''Science Fiction Special 3'' is made from three novels: 284 pages, 182 pages, and 192 pages respectively, totaling 658 pages. |
| 289 | ** ''Science Fiction Special 4'' is made from three novels: 190 pages, 191 pages, and 192 pages respectively, totaling 573 pages. |
| 290 | ** ''Science Fiction Special 5'' is made from three novels: 254 pages, 190 pages, and 191 pages respectively, totaling 635 pages. |
| 291 | ** ''Science Fiction Special 7'' is made from two previous {{Omnibus}}es: 447 pages and 428 pages respectively, totaling 875 pages. |
| 292 | ** ''Science Fiction Special 8'' is made from three novels: 156 pages, 253 pages, and 190 pages respectively, totaling 599 pages. |
| 293 | ** ''Science Fiction Special 10'' is made from three novels: 190 pages, 189 pages, and 159 pages respectively, totaling 538 pages. |
| 294 | ** ''Science Fiction Special 11'' is made from two novels and a GenreAnthology: 140 pages, 191 pages, and 280 pages respectively, totaling 611 pages. |
| 295 | ** ''Science Fiction Special 12'' is made from three novels: 210 pages, 235 pages, and 192 pages respectively, totaling 637 pages. |
| 296 | ** ''Science Fiction Special 43'' is made from a 200-page novel and a 317-page anthology, totaling 517 pages. |
| 297 | * The entire [[Literature/TheShadowhunterChronicles Shadowhunter Chronicles]] (''Literature/TheMortalInstruments'', ''Literature/TheInfernalDevices'', ''Literature/TheDarkArtifices'', and ''Literature/TheLastHours''). There's no book that is less than 400 pages. |
| 298 | ** Special mention goes to ''The Dark Artifices'' series, whose books seem to be designed to cram as much space in a bookshelf as they can. The first two books (''Lady Midnight'' and ''Lords of Shadows'') are around 700 pages long, while the final one, ''Queen of Air and Darkness'', has 912 pages, more than twice as long as the franchise's shortest book, ''City of Fallen Angels'' (432 pages). |
| 299 | ** ''The Red Scrolls of Magic'', the first entry of ''Literature/TheEldestCurses'' is the only full-length novel has less than 400 pages, but it's worth noting that Cassandra Clare didn't start to regard the series as proper mainline titles until the second entry, ''The Lost Book of the White''...which has exactly 400 pages in hardcover. |
| 300 | * Ferdowsi's ''Literature/TheShahnameh''. The abridged English prose translation by Dick Davis still manages to run close to 1,000 pages and according to the introduction the current full English verse translation is nine volumes long. Even if they're slim volumes with reasonable font sizes, that's still pretty impressive |
| 301 | * ''Shantaram'' by Gregory David Roberts clocks in at 933 pages. |
| 302 | ** The sequel ''Mountain Shadow'' is 871 pages long. |
| 303 | * The complete, collected adventures of Literature/SherlockHolmes (four novels and five story collections, written over a period of about 40 years) amount to over 1200 very large pages of very small text. |
| 304 | * ''Literature/TheSilerianTrilogy'': The first book (''In Fire Forged'') was over seven hundred pages, the second (''The White Dragon'') was over six hundred fifty pages, with the last (''The Destroyer Goddess'') being comparatively shorter at just under five hundred pages (hardback). |
| 305 | * George R. R. Martin's ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' (which was adapted into ''Series/GameOfThrones''). The mean length of the main books is around 830 pages. |
| 306 | ** The third book, ''Literature/AStormOfSwords'', has 973 pages, a record that would not be topped until eleven years later. It is so long that in many countries, the book was DividedForPublication. In France, where the publishers had made the policy since day one, it was divided into ''four'' parts. |
| 307 | ** The fifth book, ''Literature/ADanceWithDragons'', is infamously long--including a sample of the [[ScheduleSlip eventual sequel]] ''The Winds of Winter'' and all the extra pages for the copyright disclosure, etc., the US edition of the book clocks in at 1056 pages. Perhaps not as long as other examples on this page, but the story behind the book as published is an interesting one. Basically, ''Dance'' is forced to end right before the climaxes of several plotlines because George R.R. Martin's editor had to cut him off before he exceeded the physical limits of a typical bookbinding, and he had already blown through his deadlines so many times that it was no longer feasible to find a way to include those climaxes and trim enough fat to stay within the page limit. |
| 308 | ** While the remaining books in the series, ''The Winds of Winter'', and ''A Dream of Spring'', have yet to be released, Martin has suggested that they will consist of up to 1,500 manuscript pages (though the page count will be different on publishing depending on editions). For those wondering, that is around the ''limit'' of how long a book can be before the printers start having problems. |
| 309 | ** While the spin-offs are mostly subdued in length, ''Literature/FireAndBlood'', a prequel novel that focuses on the history of House Targaryen and would serve as basis for ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'', has 736 pages, nearly as long as ''Literature/AFeastForCrows''. |
| 310 | * ''Literature/TheStoneDanceOfTheChameleon'': three books, the shortest of which is just over 700 pages. |
| 311 | * ''The Stories of Creator/VladimirNabokov'' has 720 pages. |
| 312 | * ''A Suitable Boy'', by Vikram Seth. Some editions run more than 1500 pages. |
| 313 | * Michelle West's epic fantasy series ''Literature/TheSunSword''. The shortest book in it is 687 pages, the other five range from 737-957 pages. To top it off, the longest book in the series (''The Sun Sword'', the sixth and final book) also has smaller font than the other five books (which didn't exactly have large font before. I'd guess it to be 8-point font.). They're only available as mass-market paperbacks so one wouldn't be much of a weapon. All six together though? Be afraid, be very afraid. |
| 314 | * Sharon Penman's ''Literature/TheSunneInSplendour'', which is at least 1000 pages long and de-villainises [[UsefulNotes/RichardIII King Richard III]], turning him into a sympathetic protagonist who adores his wife Anne Neville. It also gives readers an inside look at the shifting loyalties and political intrigue of the UsefulNotes/WarsOfTheRoses. |
| 315 | * ''[[Literature/TheSwordOfShannaraTrilogy The Sword of Shannara]]'' was a painfully long rip off of ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''. The later books in the series were thankfully shorter and [[DerivativeDifferentiation more original]]. This is because ''Sword of Shannara'' is the ''entire Lord of the Rings'' as one book with a sword instead of a ring as the PlotDevice. |
| 316 | * Creator/TerryGoodkind's ''Literature/SwordOfTruth'' series. Eleven of the buggers, though the last three are a lot shorter than the others. The second one takes the cake; it can clock in at just shy of 1,000 pages, and some editions go well over. |
| 317 | * ''Literature/TheTaleOfGenji''. One copy is 1090 pages long, with thin paper, small type and the occasional illustration. Its length varies by language and translator, but one copy is a set of 2 doorstoppers in small print. |
| 318 | * Richard Evans' ''The Third Reich'' trilogy has collective 2576 pages in three volumes. |
| 319 | * Aidan Chambers' novel ''Literature/ThisIsAllThePillowBookOfCordeliaKenn'' tops out at 808 pages, a colossus of a young adult novel. |
| 320 | * Ian Irvine's ''Literature/TheThreeWorldsCycle''. The first book alone, ''A Shadow on the Glass'', is over 600 pages long, and the rest of the series doesn't let up either in terms of size. As of this post being written, the series stands at ''eleven'' books of roughly equal length, with at least three more planned. |
| 321 | * Most of the ''Literature/ThroneOfGlass'' books are surprisingly long for a young adult series. It's not applicable to the first two books and the prequel (the latter of which is made up of short stories), which are all under 500 pages long. From ''Heir of Fire'' onwards, though, the page count creeps increasingly higher, generally falling between 500 and 700 pages. The final book, ''Kingdom of Ashes'', is a real whopper, being nearly 1000 pages long. |
| 322 | * The novel ''Literature/ATimeToKill'' by Creator/JohnGrisham is 672 pages long. |
| 323 | * The ''[[http://furry.wikia.com/wiki/Trouble%27s_Tales Trouble's Tales]]'' series is probably the closest thing the UsefulNotes/FurryFandom has to an original literary epic, with the individual chapters alone being at long as most novels, and with good reason! One of the advertising taglines for it accurately states that the series has ''everything'', and by "everything" we do mean ''everything''. (Mostly every kind of sex ever conceived by mankind, and several conceived by wombats, but also a fair dose of action and sci-fi.) Luckily, every single story is available to read for free online, and can only be bought in physical form via an online retailer who makes them one at a time -- because, well, it's huge! |
| 324 | * Although the books are average in length individually, the ''[[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'', combining all the novels, is 832 pages long. |
| 325 | * Creator/DonDeLillo's only long novel ''Literature/Underworld1997'' is extremely long, clocking at 827 pages. Even several highbrow critics agree that it's too long. |
| 326 | * The complete printed text of ''Literature/VarneyTheVampire'', compiling a 220-chapter "penny dreadful" serial from the early 1800s, runs on (and on and on) for some 868 double-column pages. A recent, three-volume paperback release of it consists of a total of 1440 very large pages. |
| 327 | * ''Literature/VideoHoundGoldenMovieRetriever'', which as of 2021 is still updated annually, includes not only thousands of reviews but indexes them all by cast members, genre, location, and many other categories. The 2021 edition runs to 2157 pages. |
| 328 | * Creator/LeoTolstoy's ''Literature/WarAndPeace'', [[SmallReferencePools famously so]]. In fact, the adjective "tolstoy"[[note]] Which, as it happens, is related to the Russian word ''tolstyj'', meaning "big" or "fat",[[/note]] has become the Russian language's word for a Door Stopper-y book. Late-19th century Russian authors like Tolstoy and Dostoevsky were paid by the page, hence the length of their works. It's also worth noting that many of these books were published in serial installments, so the authors were not thinking in terms of one collected volume when the stories were written. |
| 329 | ** This is the subject of a joke from the [[Creator/WhiteWolf Black Dog Games Factory]] game ''Human Occupied Landfill''. The Dickens Boys (killer librarians) wear "''War and Peace'' armour" because "nothing can get through ''War and Peace''". |
| 330 | *** A joke originally done on ''Series/GetSmart''. |
| 331 | ** The book's name directly translates to "Guerre et Paix" in French, which just happens to be a homonym for "not very thick" ("guère épais"). The irony too is very thick. Presumably this is why it's usually titled "La guerre et la paix". |
| 332 | * The appropriately titled [[Franchise/WarriorCats Warriors Super Editions]]. The shortest Super Edition is 425 pages, and the rest are around 500. A total of eleven have been released as of September 2018. |
| 333 | * Every book in ''Literature/WarsOfLightAndShadow'' qualifies, but special honor has to go to the second book, ''Ships of Merior''. That one had to be divided into two volumes when released in paperback format, entitled ''Literature/ShipsOfMerior'' and ''Warhosts of Vastmark''. |
| 334 | * ''Literature/WaterMargin'' is over 2000 pages in paperback. A four-volume edition weighs more than a kilogram. |
| 335 | * ''Literature/WayOfChoices'' has 1,184 chapters. |
| 336 | * ''Literature/TheWeightOfInk'' by Creator/RachelKadish is 560 pages long, with some versions of the novel going over 600. |
| 337 | * ''We, the Drowned'' by Carsten Jensen has 688 pages. |
| 338 | * ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': The series has a bit over 9 million words for the first year of Generation 1 alone, close to 14 million words total. The Phase story "Ayla and the Birthday Brawl" is long (370,868 words). |
| 339 | * Creator/RobertJordan's ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' series is a sprawling epic of doorstoppers, 14 in all, ranging from 530 to 900 pages each. In all, the series has about 11,500 pages and 4.3 million words, not counting the relatively short ("only" 350 page) standalone prequel. The series was supposed to be 12 books long, with Jordan promising that the 12th would be his last even if it had to come with its own library cart, but after Jordan’s death, fellow Doorstopper author Brandon Sanderson had to take his notes for the final book and split them into three 8-900 page novels. |
| 340 | * ''Zettel's Traum'' by Arno Schmidt, ''Bottom's Dream'' in English translation, is more than 1,000,000 words and has 1334 (1496 in translation) pages in folio format. It weighs over 13 pounds. |
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