Don’t be intimidated by these word counts! Here are eight very long books that are worth the time they’ll take to read. Overall, it seems to be a more psychological problem readers have when it comes to long novels.įor the subset of people that are looking for their next lengthy read, you’ve come to the right place to find one. Searching various forums asking the same questions, users said that reading long classic books in school, like War and Peace, “scared” them from wanting to try again. Another thought is that longer novels tend to do a lot of telling and not showing. One long book could disrupt their schedule, making them less motivated to include it into their book account. Some readers share that this is because they have a set number of books they’d like to read in a year. It’s funny to think about how many avid readers will shy away from one long book when they are able to read the same amount of pages each month between several short books. 24.8 Very Long Books Worth the Time They’ll Take to Read Geronimo Johnson's satirical Welcome to Braggsville, and the time-travel sci-fi novel Version Control by Dexter Palmer. It included Anthony Marra's books A Constellation of Vital Phenomena and The Tsar of Love and Techno, Atticus Lish's award-winning Preparation for the Next Life, Whitney Terrell's Iraq War novel The Good Lieutenant, T. In honor of the publication of her latest book, Dis Mem Ber in June 2017, Oates also shared her current reading list with The Week. It's not easy, but every page is wonderful and repays the effort."
The other book that I worry no one reads anymore is James Joyce's Ulysses. I think young people today might not realize how readable that novel is. "I would say Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, which had an enormous effect on me. When asked for her all-time favorite book, she said: In a 2013 interview with The Boston Globe, the prolific author Joyce Carol Oates revealed Dostoevsky as one of her favorite authors. Michael Loccisano/Getty Images for The Norman Mailer Center
"Instead, I only hugged it to my chest." 23. "There was no reason not to burn this book too," she writes. It was true that The Pacific Crest Trail, Volume 1: California was now my bible, but The Dream of a Common Language was my religion."Īt one point during her arduous hike, she considers burning the book to save weight in her pack, as she did with other books she read along the trail. That book was a consolation, an old friend, and when I held it in my hands on my first night on the trail, I didn't regret carrying it one iota-even though carrying it meant that I could do no more than hunch beneath its weight. "In the previous few years, certain lines had become like incantations to me, words I'd chanted to myself through my sorrow and confusion. Explaining in Wild the choice to bring along the extra weight in her pack, she writes: She had already read it enough times to almost memorize it in its entirety. One was a book of Adrienne Rich's poetry, The Dream of a Common Language. When the author of the bestselling memoir Wild set off on her journey up the Pacific Coast Trail, she only had room to take two books. Joe Scarnici/Getty Images for American Lung Association
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