My Longest Books (cont.)

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• The 20 Longest Books I Own

When I started collecting data for this project, I pulled down from my shelves every book that looked bigger than most of the others. In this age of Big Data, I just couldn’t quite discard all the remaining titles after I determined the 20 longest. Therefore, here’s the second installment of the biggest books I own, numbers 21-40, plus one more because of one that got overlooked (see below).

21. Henry James: A Life by Leon Edel

• 740 pages
• hardcover
• read

22. Ulysses by James Joyce

• 732 pages
• paperback
• unread

23. The First Tycoon by T.J. Stiles

• 719 pages
• paperback
• unread

24. The House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

• 709 pages
• paperback
• unread

25. The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion by Tracy Daugherty

• 703 pages
• hardcover
• unread

26. The Jameses: A Family Narrative by R.W.B. Lewis

• 696 pages
• paperback
• read

27. An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears

• 692 pages
• hardcover
• read

28. The Iliad by Homer, translated by Robert Fagles

• 683 pages
• hardcover
• read

29. Roughing It by Mark Twain

• 673 pages
• hardcover
• read

30. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling

• 652 pages
• hardcover
• read

31. Personal History by Katharine Graham

• 642 pages
• hardcover
• unread

32. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling

• 36 pages
• hardcover
• read

33. The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell

• 624 pages
• hardcover
• unread

34. Babel Tower by A.S. Byatt

• 619 pages
• hardcover
• unread

35. The Little Drummer Girl by John le Carré

• 590 pages
• (Kindle)
• unread

36. Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin

• 580 pages
• hardcover
• unread

37. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing

• 568 pages
• hardcover
• unread

38. Freedom by Jonathan Franzen

• 562 pages
• hardcover
• unread

39. Dune by Frank Herbert

• 562 pages
• hardcover
• read

40. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

• 435 pages
• hardcover
• read

Correction

Somehow, this book got overlooked:

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling

• 870 pages
• hardcover
• read

At 870 pages, it should clock in at #12 overall.

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