I LOVE books that have more than 500 pages to them.   The thicker, fatter, and more pages the better.   I hate getting through a good story book in less than a week.   So I was wondering how can you find these type of bookss.    I looked through book tags and there is no such book tag...like.....500 + page book.    And putting in a search for 500 + page books does not work either,  Any suggestions?

Even under the advanced search tab, there is no way to search for a book by number of pages.  The only thing I can suggest is to start tagging books you know are very long.  Hopefully, you can get others to start tagging books that are longer, and then you'll be able to search by tag.

Here.  I did one to get you started: Wraeththu by Storm Constantine

Lists of suggestions for longer books show up often under the Hidden Gems forum.  Here is one  In Search of 800+.

Maybe we can get a group going to tag the longer books.  I love long books, too.  I also tag books for other things that are informational to others.  So I'll start adding tags about page length - just give me the words you want to see used as the tag so we all know what we're doing.

Ruth

I posted this in the 800+ pages forum, but figured I'd post it here too.

George R. R. Martin writes some good fantasy, and they are ~1000 pages.

Robin Hobb has some long books that have great character development. They are a bit slower paced, but if you like world/character development and are patient, they are a wonderful read. The one I just read by her was roughly 800 pages. If you like fantasy, check out her Farseer Trilogy and Liveship Traders Trilogy. The Farseer Trilogy is 600-700+ pages for each book and the first book of the Liveship Traders is about 800 (haven't read the rest yet).

Thanks to all of you, I am checking these books out.    Hope to get more suggestions here too

A lot of HF has 500+ pages.  Check out Sharon Kay Penman, Iain Pears, Margaret George, Diana Gabaldon.  We've started a list called Essential Historical Fiction and a lot of the books on it are "doorstoppers".   In fact, if you do a search on "doorstoppers" you'll come up with quite a few to add to your list.

lol 'doorstoppers'.  I remember dropping in on Diana Gabaldon's site before Echo in the Bone came out and someone commented that they were going on vacation after the release and was looking forward to a nice, book-shaped bruise on their breastbone from reading at the beach, thereafter nicknamed the 'Gabaldonian bruise'.

Anyway, back to topic, I would suggest creating an open list like Christa & co did with historical fiction.  Perhaps post it in this thread and also in the Hidden Gems forum asking others to contribute.

I did a 'doorstoppers' search in the PBS search box.....and they had no idea what I was talking about...no matches.    So where do I do this DoorStoppers search?

Use the Forum search boxes....you should see a row of them at the top of this thread

Click on Search All Forums and you'll get a search menu.  Search for "doorstopper" and/or "doorstoppers"   You'll get a different list of forum threads with and without the s at the end.  Then you can pick through those threads and see which books are being referred to as "doorstoppers"...our own friendly euphemism for "too-dang-big"! 

i just got my copy of the host by stephenie meyer  a little over 600 pages.

that is the only one in my stack of books that is looking big :)

I love long books too, and I wonder if the fact that they are so long makes it necessary for them to be very, very good in order to be published.  I find that I'm much less often disappointed by long books than short ones. 

Ann, if you like historical fiction and haven't already tried Diana Gabaldon, I really suggest you do!  I also have Maragret George's Memoirs of Cleopatra on my TBR and have heard very good things.  I think pretty much all of her books are superhuge.

The Outlander series is enormous, IMO. 

try a google search for "very long books"

I haven't read it, but have mailed out one copy of Santmyer's "And the Ladies of the Club".

At 1184 pages, I think it is the thickest mass market paperback I've seen yet.

Click on Search All Forums and you'll get a search menu.  Search for "doorstopper" and/or "doorstoppers."  

Also, search for "doorstop" -- you'll get a slightly different list.

The Outlander series is enormous, IMO.

lol it's beyond enormous... and I still can't get enough

Diana Gabaldon's A Breath of Snow and Ashes mmpb has 1410 pages.  I just looked at it.  I'm thinking it will be hard to read and keep from cracking the glue.

Ruth

Oh, don't even bother trying to read Gabaldon in mmpb- I don't even know why they bother publishing them that way!  She herself calls them a "book brick" on her website, because they're almost as thick as they are wide!  Go for the trade pb or hb versions, much easier to handle.  SO worth it- what a great series!  And, to the OP, even in hb or trade pb, most of them are 800+ pages.  Unbelievably, I read the first 5 of the series in 2 months- they are that good!

I'm thinking the same thing, Lesley.  THe publisher of Robin Hobb's newest book insisted on publishing it in 2 parts.  I've read the first.  I can only think the publisher wanted to sell more books, because it wouldn't have been unusually long as one book.  Readers and Hobb fans didn't like the first book

The Dragon Keeper (Rain Wilds Chronicles, Bk 1)
Author: Robin Hobb
ISBN-13: 9780061561627 - ISBN-10: 0061561622

5

Book Type: Hardcover
Publication Date: 2010
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It has 620 + pages in HC and 550+ in mmpb.  The second book has about the same number in both formats.  But the smaller format does make it easier to handle even though it does the story no favors at all.

Ruth

 

I have to agree with all on the Gabaldon Series...Fantastic Uber long series!!!!

Also, Sara Donati Into the Wilderness 9780385342575, 896+/- pages (Jamie and Claire are mentioned in this book! ALmost wet my pants!)

JR Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood Series..just read the entire series...there are 8 books in that series...

I'd like to re-open this idea, to tag big books "500 pages"  Any help is appreciated!

Bleak House by Charles Dickens is over 1000 pages. I think some of Wilkie Collins' books are long also. There are other Dickens books that are long.

If you care for non fiction Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin is 750 pages.

Here's the tag:

500 pages

I was able to get the number up to 115 books. I'll do more later.

Ann, If you can handle reading PDF's on your computer or pad (i or otherwise)  -  do a google for Light Novels and Web Novels.
Some of these are in excess of 3,000 pages and still ongoing.

I just finished a Japanese story that was (is being) translated into english - it is currently 327 chapters and a chapter a week is still being added.
" Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest " or " Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekai Saikyou " (in Japanese).

It was so good that I finished to chapter 325 (with 10 to 20 pages per chapter) and went back to re-read it over again (I' currently at chapter 201.
 

I also read up to volume 13 of "OVERLORD" another Light Novel which is also currently unfinished - the Volumes (LN) are added perhaps once or twice a year while the WN versions have a chapter added each week. 

There are American stlye stories at their on websites as well as European ones. Stories cover any genre' you can imangine. Many are available as PDF's and the ones set up to rtead online can be converted to a PDF format for viewing later.

It's worth checking out.- for the Japanese stories in English you can check out their "Slice of Life" formats - those I like the best.

anybody notice this thread was started 8 years ago?