Best Long (>600 Pages) Book You’ve Read?

Compiling Patrick OShaughnessy's tweet replies

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?

Patrick OShaughnessy @patrick_oshag

What is the best very long (>600 pages) book that you've ever read? Some candidates for me: -The Prize by Yergin -Master of the Senate by Caro -Shantaram by Roberts

Biographies and Autobiographies

• Napoleon by Frank McLynn

• Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson

• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

• Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson

• 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

• Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow

• The House of Morgan by Ron Chernow

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

• Andrew Carnegie by Joseph Frazier Wall

• The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris

• An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917 by Robert Dallel

• Van Gogh: The Life by Steven Naifeh & Gregory White Smith

• From Third World to First: The Singapore Story – 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew

• Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela

• The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin by Steven Lee Myers

• Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts

• The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy by David Nasaw

• Personal History by Katharine Graham

• The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan by Sebastian Mallaby

• De Gaulle by Julian Jackson

• Papillion by Henri Charriere

• Frank: The Voice by James Kaplan

• And The Walls Came Tumbling Down by Ralph Abernathy

• Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Eric Metaxas

Fiction

• Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts

• Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin

• Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

• IT by Stephen King

• The Stand by Stephen King

• 11/22/63 by Stephen King

• Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

• Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien

• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

• Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

• Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons

• The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

• The Romance of the 3 Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong

• Underworld: A Novel by Don DeLillo

• Harry Potter Series by J.K Rowling (Specifically GoF, OoTP, HBP and DH are 500+ pages)

• Otherland series by Tad Williams

• Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn by Tad Williams

• Asian Saga Book Series by James Clavell

• Musashi: An Epic Novel of the Samurai Era by Eiji Yoshikawa

• A Little Life Paperback by Hanya Yanagihara

• Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra

• The Once and Future King by T.H. White

• A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

• A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth

• The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

• 2666 by Roberto Bolaño

• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

• New York by Edward Rutherford

• Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

• The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil

• The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

• Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

• Gulag Archipelago by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

• Aztec by Gary Jennings

• Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust

• The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

• Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

• The Physician by Noah Gordon

• 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

• Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas père

• I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb

• Unintended Consequences by John Ross and T. J. Mullin

History, Government Etc

• Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 by Edwin G. Burrows

• Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War by Karl Marlantes

• 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

• Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt

• The Best And The Brightest by David Halberstam

• 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 Story of Civilization by Will & Ariel Durant

• The Rise & Fall of The Third Reich by William L. Shirer

• The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 by David McCullough

• The Second World War by Winston Churchill

• 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 Road to Reality by Roger Penrose

• Rationality: From AI to Zombies by Eliezer Yudkowsky

• The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker

• 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

• The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by Iain McGilchrist

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