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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