5 Longest Books I've Read Ranked

[@PhilistineTheArtLuvr]

The Brothers Karamazov, that's as far as I will go.Because it's that freaking good!

[@MikePerry-bt9yv]

Arrghh!! The Count of Monte Cristo But no fault, you should check out Alfred Besters' weird version of it. Arguably started cyberpunk and won awards back in the 50s or 60s. The Stars My Destination.

[@43pages55]

Gone With The Wind is my favorite book. The sequel ( written by a different author) was good and tied up so loose ends.

[@Tolstoy111]

Les Miserables inspired "War and Peace". But the key difference is that the characters in the latter feel like real people whereas Hugo's characters feel like archetypes never quite like real people. It all seems to be at a remove. Still worth reading. Hope you get to Don Quixote some day. It may crack an updated version of this list.

[@RelishBooks]

I have read Don Quixote. It’s a fun and informative read in the light of all the literature it has influenced but nowhere on the level of Les Miserables as far as story.

[@Tolstoy111]

@@RelishBooks see for me, the Don and Sancho Panza endure in the memory with a vivid fullness that none of the archetypes in LM come close to. DQ has grown for me as Les Miserables has receded.

[@RelishBooks]

@@Tolstoy111 I get that.

[@leopercara3477]

I would go: The Lord of the Rings Shögun Lonesome Dove The Mirror and the Light Crime and Punishment

[@RelishBooks]

That’s some great variety! The Lord of the Rings would be at the top of my list too if I had counted it as a single volume. And I really like Crime and Punishment, it was in my top eight. 😊

[@Tolstoy111]

@@RelishBooks Tolkien intended it as one novel! It was the publisher that insisted it be divided in three.

[@RelishBooks]

@@Tolstoy111 I know. But often authors intentions aren't carried out, and we can't always view their work the way they wanted because that's not what happened. Sometimes I do classify LOTR as a whole, but since it was published as three books and works very well that way, that's more often how I view it.

[@Tolstoy111]

@@RelishBooks It's funny how Don Quixote is regarded as one book where that really was two books published ten years apart.