Hi everyone!! I am looking for a big fat thick book to take to the beach! Please give me ideas-all genres! Thickest books you have read????
Hi everyone!! I am looking for a big fat thick book to take to the beach! Please give me ideas-all genres! Thickest books you have read????
Paullina Simons, The Bronze Horseman. Any of Margaret George’s books where she’s writing as a historical figure…The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers, The Memoirs of Cleopatra, etc…Les Miserables, Terry Goodkind’s Wizard’s First Rule…
The stand
Outlander
A Discovery of Witches
Oooh, I forgot about A Discovery of Witches!
I really like Susanna Kearsley’s books too
@Erica I haven’t read any of hers yet, are they Deborah Harkness-level good?
@Christle I mean I don’t think many are that good but pretty close… they are really good and full of magic and history. My personal favorite is called The Firebird.
@Erica I’ll look for it on my library’s website
If I’m not able to get it from my local branch, I can put it on hold
I hope you love it!
@Erica My local library branch doesn’t have it, but I put myself on the hold list
I’m first in line, soI should be getting it a few days from Monday. Though really, sometimes they can take a week to get a copy, even though all of them are checked in, and the farthest branch is only an hour and a half away at the most…
@Christle I think it’s worth the wait
@Erica It usually is, but I’m a very impatient person
@Christle it’s on ThriftBooks for $3.79.
It says it’s #2 in a series but it’s not.
@Erica Hmm…definitely considering it, I have a few more spots where I can fit a book or two on my shelves…
Her novels all kind of flow well together though.. there will be a mention of characters in previous novels. The Winter Sea talks of the same story/ characters but I don’t think it’s something you have to read first. It is really good too though
@Erica Wish I had thought to grab something of hers at the library today! I also like Paula Brackston, but I can’t seem to get into The Midnight Witch at all.
@Christle I don’t think you can go wrong with any of her books!
I love Paula Brackston! The Witches Daughter is my favorite of hers.
@Erica That’s the one I haven’t gotten to read yet ? So I have to avoid the two Paula books my local library has because I don’t like one, and the other is the sequel to The Witch’s Daughter
The Pillars of the Earth
Anything by Philip K. Dick ?
The Nightingale if you don’t want something light both literally and figuratively ?
IT
Outlander (and all of the series) the stand, IT, Game of Thrones (and the rest of the series), A discovery of witches. The Passage trilogy.
My favorite thick books!
Fantasy/Dystopian:
– The Assassin’s Blade (Throne of Glass series) and A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas (the books get bigger as the two series go on!)
– Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
– The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken
Contemporary/Realistic Fiction:
– The Problem with Forever by Jennifer L. Armentrout
– Say You’ll Remember Me by Katie McGarry
– Broken Beautiful Hearts by Kami Garcia
A Little Life
Atlas shrugged. The dos passos trilogy
The Book Thief, The Stand, A Little Life, Robin Hobb books
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley.
The bible lol
Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare is really big
If you can get The Once And Future King all bound in one volume, it’s almost 900 pages.
The Secret History and The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt. Smoke by Dan Vyleta is also a good thick one. The Lord of the Rings.
Lady Midnight & Lord of Shadows
Gone With The Wind
The Crow Girl.
Shantaram ???
Desperation by Stephen King
Truman by David McCullough. I really liked it, McCullough writes history with ease and beautiful flow. I learned a lot. But if you don’t history or bios, never mind.
Replica, The Goldfinch, the Brothers Karamazov. Just finished the Snow Child—not as thick as the others but over 300 pages and a great read—also La Lacuna is decent sized and one of my favorite books of all time (its by Barbara Kingsolver).
Loved Snow Child!!!!!
I Am Pilgrim
Stephen King’s “Under the Dome” is a brick of a book, and it’s actually my favorite of his that I’ve read so far!
The summer I turned pretty trilogy. All three of the books but put into one big ol book
House of Leaves
Strange the dreamer
The Mists Of Avalon.
1. Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
2. PM your address and I’ll send you a copy of my book, “Bishop’s Revenge”.
11/22/63 by Stephen king about Kennedy assassination.
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
1. Furyborn – Claire LeGrand
2. Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
3. Under the Dome – Stephen King
4. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
5. Beautiful Creatures – Kami Garcia
6. The DaVinci Code – Dan Brown
7. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
8. The Stand – Stephen King
9. The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexander Dumas
10. Shogun – James Clavell
11. The Thorn Birds
12. It – Stephen King
13. Centennial – James Mitchner
14. Needful Things – Stephen King
15. The Cider House Rules – John Irving
16. The Witching Hour – Anne Rice
17. A Woman of Substance – Barbara Taylor Bradford
18. The Way of Kings – Bradford Sanderson
19. The Mists of Avalon – Marion Zimmer Bradley
20. Eragon – Christopher Paolini
I’m sure there are others….. just drawing a blank … will add more if I think of any. I tried to give a decent variety of books/genres
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson, It by Stephen King, A discovery of witches by Deborah Harkness, The Queen of the Tearling by Erica Johanson.
Game of thrones or Harry Potter
The Host by Stephenie Meyer
Outlander, the Victorian Trilogy by Felix Palma
go for a classic “The Count of Monte Cristo” Alexander @Dumas
The Stand (unabridged) or The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy (in one book)
Game of Thrones
Donna Tartt or Stephen King!
Pillars of the Earth
11/22/63
Shantaram
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War and Peace.
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley.
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The Stand by Stephen King is my all time favourite book. I wouldn’t classify it a horror either
Under The Dome by Stephen King
IT by Stephen King
Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King and Owen King
Outlander
Thank you for all the suggestions!!!!!!
1Q84 or les miserables
The Talisman
The Inheritance Trilogy by N.K. Jemisen…1446 pages of lovely.
Outlander
Lonesome Dove. Brilliant!
Outlander
House of Leaves ?
Atlas @Einstein
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas.
The stand by Stephen King
My favorite!!!
The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
Jonathan strange and Dr norrel. Under the dome.
Unabridged Les Miserables by victor Hugo
The Hearts Invisible Furries by John Boyne. Historical fiction… Great read, close to 600 pages, but goes down easy.
edward rutherford
Beach Music by Pat Conroy
Any combined series of books will do.
Wicked (the original)
And then Son of a Witch
Outlanders book, Gone with the Wind
The other Boleyn girl
Anna karanina
Gone with the wind
I haven’t read it but Stephen King’s The Stand has over 1000 pages and it’s supposed to be pretty good.
It is. It’s in my top 5 favourite novels.
The Illuminae series, all the books in the series were SOOO THICK ?
Pillars of the Earth
Mine too^^. Awesome book!
I think the mini series was done pretty well, too. Eddie Redmayne was great! It’s rare to have a movie that comes close to being as good as the book. The Help did that very well!
The stand
Sci-fi Battlefield Earth. Also, Dune. (Haven’t read the first, its in my tbr pile, the second is really good!)
The historian
Warbreaker. Maybe not the thickest, but it’s pretty big
Les Miserables
The time in between by Maria Dueñas
11/22/63 by Stephen King!
The Alienist by Caleb Carr –not too thick or heavy though ~ (498 pages)
Gone with the wind any of Margaret George’s books (Helen of Troy and memoirs of Cleopatra are my favorites)
IT by Stephen King
Pillow book of Cordelia ken
Styxx by Sherilyn Kenyon. Dark Hunter series.
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
It’s a Victorian classic but thick and good reading matter Wilkie Collins ‘Woman in White’ ???
Following! I love thick books! Some of my favorites are: Sarum and London both by Edward Rutherfurd ,Stephen King’s IT, James Clavell’s Shogun, Helen Hoover Santmyer’s …And the Ladies of the Club, Anne Rice’s The Witching Hour, Susan Howatch’s The Wheel of Fortune and Penmarric, Alex Haley’s Roots, and Imajica by Clive Barker!
Try Metamagical Themas
Henry Wouk books are up there in pagination!
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon, Exit Unicorns by Cindy Brandner, The Bronze Horsman, by Paullina Simons, all historic fiction, smart, meaty, all very different and my top 3 favorite books of all time. Enjoy!
I *LOVE* The Bronze Horseman.
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Sufficiently advanced magic (it’s a self publish book) It’s really good.
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The swan song fav book ever and very long but worth it
I have it in TBR pile.
@Kylie girl I couldn’t put it down …. Enjoy let me know when you do ?
“His Dark Materials” trilogy by Philip Pullman
(The Golden Compass, etc)
All 3 books can be bought as one, under 1 book cover
Shardik by Richard Adams
I couldn’t get into that one. But I did love Watership Down
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Outlander series! Larger books and a TON in the series
IT by Stephen King. About 1300 pages
Under the Dome – Stephen King
Gone with the wind
The Red Queen.
The Passage by Justin Cronin.
The Stand. Stephen king.
Natchez Burning by Greg Iles.
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
I just got this one!
Have you started it? It is amazing. You won’t regret it.
I have started it. I’m not too far in, but it is really good so far!
Awesome! Happy Reading!
Thank you! I also just started Fevre Dream by George R.R. Martin…that’s awesome too if you’re into vampires!
1Q84 – Haruki Murakami
Cassandra Clare Lady Midnight
It by stephen king, the talismen by stephen king, the stand by stephen king
Anna Karenina
The Perfect Couple, 11/22/63, Pretty Girls, Hold Tight,
All great and big Plum Island.
Illuminae