I am now reading A Little Life. Hit a spot that was difficult to read; read a little, put down for a few minutes, repeat. Figured this was going to happen at some point.
Goldfinch was about 50 percent too long. Haven’t read Anna.
Another vote for Anna Karenina and The Goldfinch. I’d do AK first. The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova The Plague Dogs, Richard Adams Shōgun, James Clavell War and Peace, Tolstoy The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy Tom Jones by Henry Fielding The Lord of the Rings, JRRT The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss
The Lord of the Rings, The Name of the Wind, Reamde by Neal Stephenson, Gone With the Wind, Game of Thrones books, Seven Eves by Neal Stephenson, The Chemist by Meyer, The Goldfinch, etc. I like big books and I cannot lie.
I often think about the Thornbirds for so many reasons, sometimes I see a certain color and think “Ashes of roses”, wish I knew what the author really meant.
An Autobiography by Agatha Christie. Mary, Queen of Scots by Antonia Fraser. Our Hidden Lives, the Remarkable Diaries of Post-War Britain, edited by Simon Garfield. The Mitfords, Letters Between Six Sisters, edited by Charlotte Mosley
The Stand, It, Outlander, Gone with the Wind, Pillars of the Earth, The Witching Hour, Shantaram, I Know This Much is True, 11/22/63, The Bronze Horseman, The Goldfinch, The Passage, The Fireman, NOS4A2, The Thorn Birds, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Talisman, American Gods, Night Film, The House at Riverton, A Discover if Witches, Ghost Story, We Are Water, The Poisonwood Bible, Middlesex, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn…
The Song if Ice and Fire series, The Wheel of Time Series, The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicles), The Codex Alera Series, The Goldfinch, The Millenium Series (Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), 1Q84, Native Son
Loved it!! I read it when it was a new release and again about 7 years later. One of the only two books I have ever reread and I loved it even more the second time ?
A Suitable Boy, by Vikram Seth. 1,345 pages. One of my favorite books of all time. About a young woman and her mother looking for a husband for her in India a few years after India became independent, which was 1949. Four young men are considered. As you learn about the men, you enter into the worlds of campaigning for political office, playing music for a high class courtesan, manufacturing, and so much more. You completely enter a world in such rich and vibrant detail that it was painful for me when it finally ended.
Historical fiction by Sharon Kay Penman, Edith Pragater (aka Ellis Peters) and Bernard Cromwell. In science fiction – definitely Justin Cronin’s The Passage series books – especially if you like The Stand.
Clan of the Cave Bear Series
11.22.63, Pillars of the Earth and Heart’s Invisible Furies!!!!!!! ????????♥️♥️♥️??
The Count of Monte Cristo
Pillars of the Earth and Gone with the Wind.
The Goldfinch
The Bronze Horseman by Paulinna Simons
Gone With the Wind
Pillars of the Earth
A Suitable Boy!
Six Four by Hideo Yokohama
A Little Life, The Goldfinch, Anna Karenina.
I am now reading A Little Life. Hit a spot that was difficult to read; read a little, put down for a few minutes, repeat. Figured this was going to happen at some point.
Goldfinch was about 50 percent too long. Haven’t read Anna.
11/23/63
A Fine Balance
Acheron by sherrilyn Kenyon
Another vote for Anna Karenina and The Goldfinch. I’d do AK first.
The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova
The Plague Dogs, Richard Adams
Shōgun, James Clavell
War and Peace, Tolstoy
The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
The Lord of the Rings, JRRT
The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss
Yes! These are all good ones
All wonderful reads!
11/22/63 by Stephen King
A Suitable Boy-Vikram Seth
Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra
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Gone with the wind
Hawaii
A little life
11/22/63
East of Eden by Steinbeck
The Lord of the Rings, The Name of the Wind, Reamde by Neal Stephenson, Gone With the Wind, Game of Thrones books, Seven Eves by Neal Stephenson, The Chemist by Meyer, The Goldfinch, etc. I like big books and I cannot lie.
Ha we are twins! ?
Pachinko!
All the books in the Outlander series, Diana Gabaldon
My all time favorite series!
Mine too! Anxiously awaiting the next book!
Pillars of the Earth trilogy by Ken Follet.
Catch 22
Stephen King
Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Harry Potter and Behind Closed Doors ?
East of Eden
Lord of the Rings
19th wife
The stand
The museum of innocence by Orhan pamuk.
A Perfect Spy by John le Carré.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Gone with the Wind; 11/22/63; David Copperfield
The Thornbirds
The Stand.
“Of Human Bondage” by W. Somerset Maugham
Any of the Pillars of the Earth trilogy by Ken Follett
Gone With the Wind
War and Peace – Because all of human life is in there just about.
I often think about the Thornbirds for so many reasons, sometimes I see a certain color and think “Ashes of roses”, wish I knew what the author really meant.
Shantaram
And The Ladies of the Club
David Copperfield, War and Piece, Version Control by Dexter Palmer
Shogun, by James Clavell
The Stand, and Duma Key – both by Stephen King – both come immediately to mind.
An American Tragedy, and Night Over Water. Also War and Remembrance, and The Winds of War
Anything by James Michener.
IT, by Stephen King
An Autobiography by Agatha Christie. Mary, Queen of Scots by Antonia Fraser. Our Hidden Lives, the Remarkable Diaries of Post-War Britain, edited by Simon Garfield. The Mitfords, Letters Between Six Sisters, edited by Charlotte Mosley
The Secret History & the Goldfinch by Donna Tart. Any book by Kate Morton. The discovery of witches trilogy by Deborah Harkness.
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry 945 pgs and Into the Wilderness by Sara Donati 845 pgs
1Q84
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13206900-winter?page=99
has 827 pages and part of a serires
The Stand, It, Outlander, Gone with the Wind, Pillars of the Earth, The Witching Hour, Shantaram, I Know This Much is True, 11/22/63, The Bronze Horseman, The Goldfinch, The Passage, The Fireman, NOS4A2, The Thorn Birds, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Talisman, American Gods, Night Film, The House at Riverton, A Discover if Witches, Ghost Story, We Are Water, The Poisonwood Bible, Middlesex, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn…
Obviously, I love big books!
And you cannot lie!
The Historian and The Terror
The Hypnotist by Lars Kepler
The Song if Ice and Fire series, The Wheel of Time Series, The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicles), The Codex Alera Series, The Goldfinch, The Millenium Series (Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), 1Q84, Native Son
Caribbean by James Michener
Hawaii, by Michener.
Middlesex, A Suitable Boy, The Goldfinch
Gone with the wind
Middlesex
IT
Count of Monte Cristo – the most delicious adventure book ever.
Chabon
The Power Broker by Robert A Caro
4,3,2,1 by Paul Auster
A Little Life.
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
His dark materials, the golden compass series.
The Goldfinch, A Little Life.
Sarum by Edward Rutherford, Sacajawea by Anna Lee Waldo
Green Rider
Outlander
The Heart’s Invisible Furies
Bleak House
“Shantaram “ by Gregory David Roberts, about an Australian fugitive hiding in the slums of Bombay.???
I love that book!
Help! Looking at Amazon about this book…is there a Book 1 and 2.. what about Mountain something?
@Betty Yes Betty his follow-up book which I have TBR is “ The Mountain Shadow” and it really looks good.???
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
East of Eden, Outlander, Gone With the Wind.
Pachinko. (Well, okay, it’s only 496 pages…)
I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
I have only read it once, but I loved it. One of my favorites. I will add it to my 2018 RE-read list.
Loved it!! I read it when it was a new release and again about 7 years later. One of the only two books I have ever reread and I loved it even more the second time ?
Finnegans Wake (628 very full pages)
Yes, but why? That is one brilliant book that confused the hell out of me.
A little life. A fine balance. 11.22.63
ooh, nice, i just bought A Little Life last week
Wally Lamb’s “I know this much is True” and “Little Life”
@Karyn oh, A Little Life was so heartbreaking and beautiful
And as I’ve said, A Fine Balance is one of my all-time faves. Loved 11.22.63, too! (And all of Wally Lamb’s books)
@Karen and @Karyn, we could be in a book club together and have the BEST conversations. Oh, wait, we are!!!
@Leah I’m reading this now and, yes, it is heartbreaking.
A Fine Balance, Wild Swans,
A Fine Balance! Love that book so much!
the recognitions, midnight’s children
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulkes.
Outlander
Anything by Stephen King.
He certainly knows how to string out a novel lol
the jean auel series starting with clan of the cave bear … i think they are all more than 500 pages.
Anything by Ken Follett
Winds of War and War and Remembrance
And more recently, The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne.
Little Life and Pachinko.
Shantaram.
And you know he has a follow-up,”The Mountain Shadow”.???
@Michael I Did NOT know. Thank you!
the museum of innocence !
Roberto Bolano’s 2666 …
I wanted to say the same !!!
A Gentleman in Moscow
The stand
.
Stephen King’s books are long and very good!
The Once and Future King
A Suitable Boy, by Vikram Seth. 1,345 pages. One of my favorite books of all time. About a young woman and her mother looking for a husband for her in India a few years after India became independent, which was 1949. Four young men are considered. As you learn about the men, you enter into the worlds of campaigning for political office, playing music for a high class courtesan, manufacturing, and so much more. You completely enter a world in such rich and vibrant detail that it was painful for me when it finally ended.
Lovely reply, thank you so much l, before autocorrect stuck it’s head in , I will certainly try.sSounds heavenly,,!???
Thanks for the description!
War and Peace.
Tolstoy’s masterpiece.
I’ve read it twice, and I’d love to read it once more.
Atlas Shrugged just over 1000 pages by Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead just over 700 pages by Ayn Rand
Empire of Cotton by Sven Beckert
Historical fiction by Sharon Kay Penman, Edith Pragater (aka Ellis Peters) and Bernard Cromwell. In science fiction – definitely Justin Cronin’s The Passage series books – especially if you like The Stand.
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James.
The Witching Hour by Anne Rice
I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb