I’m trying to be helpful and listing some good long page books (>600 pages) recommended by others, sort them into categories and link to them. 🙂

Inspired by Patrick Oshaughnessy’s tweet. What is the best very long (>600 pages) book that you’ve ever read?

Biographies and Autobiographies

• Napoleon by Frank McLynn
• Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
• Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
• The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro
• Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro
• The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Shroeder
• Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow
• The House of Morgan by Ron Chernow
• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
• Andrew Carnegie by Joseph Frazier Wall
• The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
• An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917 by Robert Dallel
• Van Gogh: The Life by Steven Naifeh & Gregory White Smith
• From Third World to First: The Singapore Story – 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew
• Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
• The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin by Steven Lee Myers
• Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts
• The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy by David Nasaw
• Personal History by Katharine Graham
• The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan by Sebastian Mallaby
• De Gaulle by Julian Jackson
• Papillion by Henri Charriere
• Frank: The Voice by James Kaplan
• And The Walls Came Tumbling Down by Ralph Abernathy
• Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Eric Metaxas

Fiction

• Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
• Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
• Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
• IT by Stephen King
• The Stand by Stephen King
• 11/22/63 by Stephen King
• Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
• Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
• Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons
• The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Romance of the 3 Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong
• Underworld: A Novel by Don DeLillo
• Harry Potter Series by J.K Rowling (Specifically GoF, OoTP, HBP and DH are 500+ pages)
• Otherland series by Tad Williams
• Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn by Tad Williams
• Asian Saga Book Series by James Clavell
• Musashi: An Epic Novel of the Samurai Era by Eiji Yoshikawa
• A Little Life Paperback by Hanya Yanagihara
• Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra
• The Once and Future King by T.H. White
• A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin
• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
• A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
• The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
• 2666 by Roberto Bolaño
• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• New York by Edward Rutherford
• Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
• The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil
• The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
• Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
• Gulag Archipelago by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
• Aztec by Gary Jennings
• Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
• The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
• Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
• The Physician by Noah Gordon
• 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
• Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas père
• I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
• Unintended Consequences by John Ross and T. J. Mullin

History, Government Etc

• Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 by Edwin G. Burrows
• Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War by Karl Marlantes
• India After Gandhi: The History of the World’s Largest Democracy by Ramachandra Guha
• Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
• The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War by Andrew Roberts
• Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt
• The Best And The Brightest by David Halberstam
• About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior by David Hackworth
• The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power by Daniel Yergin
• The Structures of Everyday Life: Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century by Fernand Braudel
• The Story of Civilization by Will & Ariel Durant
• The Rise & Fall of The Third Reich by William L. Shirer
• The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 by David McCullough
• The Second World War by Winston Churchill
• What It Takes: The Way to the White House by Richard Ben Cramer
• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

Science, Tech & Psychology

• The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose
• Rationality: From AI to Zombies by Eliezer Yudkowsky
• The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker
• The Ancestor’s Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution by Richard Dawkins
• Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky
• The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by Iain McGilchrist 

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