I’m trying to be helpful and listing some good long-page books (>600 pages) recommended by others, sort them into categories and link to them.
Inspired by Patrick Oshaughnessy’s tweet. What is the best very long (>600 pages) book that you’ve ever read?

Biographies and Autobiographies
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro
Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Shroeder
From Third World to First: The Singapore Story – 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew
The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin by Steven Lee Myers
The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy by David Nasaw
The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan by Sebastian Mallaby
Fiction
Harry Potter Series by J.K Rowling (Specifically GoF, OoTP, HBP and DH are 500+ pages)
History, Government Etc
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 by Edwin G. Burrows
India After Gandhi: The History of the World’s Largest Democracy by Ramachandra Guha
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War by Andrew Roberts
About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior by David Hackworth
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power by Daniel Yergin
The Structures of Everyday Life: Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century by Fernand Braudel
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 by David McCullough
What It Takes: The Way to the White House by Richard Ben Cramer
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
Science, Tech & Psychology
The Ancestor’s Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution by Richard Dawkins
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky
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