For me it’s Metro 2033 by Dmitriy Glukhovskiy, which is 500 pages long
Really? No one else read “House of Leaves”? Y’all are missing out on the best psychogical essay novel ever written
I read it Sophomore year. It gave me nightmares for a while. I loved it.
House of Leaves is around 700 pages long, am I wrong? Most books mentioned in this post’s comments are longer, so maybe that is why.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, around 1200 pages
Classic, definitely best Dumas novel for me.
David Weber Honorverse, something like 30 books averaging around 600 pages each. Main plot is 17 books (i think, at the end main plot and spinoffs converge).
A single tome book would be James Clavell’s Shogun, 1125 pages, small font.
What do you make of Clavell? I like long reads and Asian culture, but I hesitate to buy his books because he is an Englishman and I fear they might eventually converge into the usual White Saviour and Noble Savages bullshit you tend to find in literature from back in the day
Shogun is pretty good, protagonist do have some white saviour moments and quite a lot of orientalism but the book is written good, so the author is invisible, and all that is put on a head of XVI century british sailor (for a XVI century British sailor Blackthorne is actually remarkably tolerant and open minded at least after Yabu and Omi explain to him he’s not in England anymore). The book also make few important points about about christianity in Japan. Definitely low key anticolonialist.
Tai-pan is worse, but i read it long ago and don’t remember much.
I am halfway through Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain, 1047 pages long.
How is it? I’ve heard good things.
And you’ve heard well if you ask me.