Top Ten Tuesday: Books with a High Page Count

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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl. For the rules see her blog

The topic today is Books with a High Page Count (Share those doorstop books!) Today I’m sharing ten of the longest books I’ve ever read.

  1. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo 1,463 pages
  2. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 1,276 pages
  3. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 1,095 pages
  4. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett 1,076 pages.
  5. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens 1,008 pages
  6. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel 965 pages
  7. The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Penman 886 pages
  8. Tombland by C J Sansom 866 pages
  9. The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton 834 pages
  10. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens 777 pages

40 thoughts on “Top Ten Tuesday: Books with a High Page Count”

  5. I’ve never read The Count of Monte Cristo but I did plough my way through Les Miserables and decided that it didn’t need to be anywhere near that long. I think Dickens manages to keep my interest better over his longer books.

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    1. The Count of Monte Cristo is much easier to read than Les Miserables, parts of which had me yawning and dragged, when there was too much detail about battles and sieges. Hugo has too many meditations or digressions that he intersperses in the story just when you want to know what happens next. 

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  6. I noticed a few Dickens on your list, too, Margaret. And it’s good to see Wolf Hall on your list; I thought that was excellent, and the start of a fine trilogy. And you’ve reminded me that I need to catch up with Eleanor Catton’s work!

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  11. Charles Dickens just didn’t know when to stop. And then when he does often it feels like he clunks to an end. I read the abridged version of David Copperfield and it was still long at 500 pages. Now I know I missed out on half the story.

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    1. I think maybe he wrote such long books because they were originally serialised and maybe he had a certain number of words to fill in each issue.

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  13. When I read Count of Monte Cristo, I decided if I was going to read it, I was going to read all of it. Part of it was I knew my brain would ponder what was cut and why as I read it.

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  18. Happily I’ve read most of these so only two monsters are still lurking – The Sunne in Splendour and The Count of Monte Cristo! I have The Count on audio – 76 hours worth – and am determined to listen to it next year!

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    1.  The Sunne in Splendour is one of my all time favourites – I do hope you’ll enjoy it too. Monte Cristo is enjoyable but not as good! At least that’s what I think.

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