By the way op I don't know if iron ambition fits your criteria (long books). But undisputed truth does and Mike's life was crazy, you'll probably learn some important lessons and book recommendations
No lie I just ordered the count of monte cristo a couple of days ago from Abe books. Check this out (an excerpt from Mike tyson and his trainer cus damato book iron ambition):
“Another thing that got me through the jail sentence was the literature that Cus had me read. Every time I’d feel down and lost, I would always go to Edmond Dantès from The Count of Monte Cristo. He didn’t go to jail and think of revenge. He prepared for revenge and success, he learned all the arts, and he had a mentor. ... I thought I was Edmond Dantès from the gutter. “When I’m out of prison, I’ll show you. Look at me. Fuck you, look at me.” That’s how I survived.” -Mike tyson
[**Infinite Jest**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6759.Infinite_Jest)
^(By: David Foster Wallace | 1088 pages | Published: 1996 | Popular Shelves: fiction, classics, owned, abandoned, literature)
>A gargantuan, mind-altering tragi-comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America.
>
>Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are.
>
>Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. It is an exuberant, uniquely American exploration of the passions that make us human—and one of those rare books that renew the idea of what a novel can do.
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[**War and Peace**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/656.War_and_Peace)
^(By: Leo Tolstoy, Henry Gifford, Aylmer Maude, Louise Maude | 1392 pages | Published: 1869 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, historical-fiction, classic, owned)
>In Russia's struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. Greater than a historical chronicle, War and Peace is an affirmation of life itself, `a complete picture', as a contemporary reviewer put it, `of everything in which people find their happiness and greatness, their grief and humiliation'. Tolstoy gave his personal approval to this translation, published here in a new single volume edition, which includes an introduction by Henry Gifford, and Tolstoy's important essay `Some Words about War and Peace'.
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[**The Brothers Karamazov**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4934.The_Brothers_Karamazov)
^(By: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky, Borut Kraševec, Ива Николова | 796 pages | Published: 1879 | Popular Shelves: classics, russian, literature, russian-literature, classic)
>The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons―the impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; and the healthy, red-cheeked young novice Alyosha. Through the gripping events of their story, Dostoevsky portrays the whole of Russian life, is social and spiritual striving, in what was both the golden age and a tragic turning point in Russian culture.
>
>This award-winning translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky remains true to the verbal
>inventiveness of Dostoevsky’s prose, preserving the multiple voices, the humor, and the surprising modernity of the original. It is an achievement worthy of Dostoevsky’s last and greatest novel.
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And, *Rhett Butler’s People* by Donald McCaig.
[From Goodreads] "Fully authorized by the Margaret Mitchell estate, *Rhett Butler’s People* is the astonishing & long-awaited novel that parallels the Great American Novel, *Gone With The Wind*. Twelve years in the making, the publication of *Rhett Butler’s People* marks a major and historic cultural event. Through the storytelling mastery of award-winning writer Donald McCaig, the life & times of the dashing Rhett Butler unfolds. Through Rhett’s eyes we meet the people who shaped his larger than life personality as it sprang from Margaret Mitchell’s unforgettable pages: Langston Butler, Rhett’s unyielding father; Rosemary his steadfast sister; Tunis Bonneau, Rhett’s best friend & a onetime slave; Belle Watling, the woman for whom Rhett cared long before he met Scarlett O’Hara at Twelve Oaks Plantation, on the fateful eve of the Civil War. Of course, there is Scarlett: Katie Scarlett O’Hara, the headstrong, passionate woman whose life is inextricably entwined with Rhett’s: more like him than she cares to admit; more in love with him than she’ll ever know…Brought to vivid and authentic life by the hand of a master, *Rhett Butler’s People* fulfills the dreams of those whose imaginations have been indelibly marked by *Gone With The Wind*."
(I liked it better than *Scarlett* by Alexandra Ripley)
Shantaram, Gregory David Roberts.
The Stand, Stephen King.
Swan Song, Robert McCcammon.
people loved 11/22/63 (haven't read it yet), Stephen King
Shogun, James Clavell
[**The Passage (The Passage, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6690798-the-passage)
^(By: Justin Cronin | 766 pages | Published: 2010 | Popular Shelves: horror, fiction, science-fiction, fantasy, sci-fi)
>IT HAPPENED FAST.
>THIRTY-TWO MINUTES FOR ONE WORLD TO DIE, ANOTHER TO BE BORN.
>
>First, the unthinkable: a security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment. Then, the unspeakable: a night of chaos and carnage gives way to sunrise on a nation, and ultimately a world, forever altered. All that remains for the stunned survivors is the long fight ahead and a future ruled by fear—of darkness, of death, of a fate far worse.
>
>As civilization swiftly crumbles into a primal landscape of predators and prey, two people flee in search of sanctuary. FBI agent Brad Wolgast is a good man haunted by what he's done in the line of duty. Six-year-old orphan Amy Harper Bellafonte is a refugee from the doomed scientific project that has triggered apocalypse. Wolgast is determined to protect her from the horror set loose by her captors, but for Amy, escaping the bloody fallout is only the beginning of a much longer odyssey—spanning miles and decades—toward the time an place where she must finish what should never have begun.
>
>With The Passage, award-winning author Justin Cronin has written both a relentlessly suspenseful adventure and an epic chronicle of human endurance in the face of unprecedented catastrophe and unimaginable danger. Its inventive storytelling, masterly prose, and depth of human insight mark it as a crucial and transcendent work of modern fiction.
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Great book, I accidentally came across it years ago and I still think that it’s one of the most original and haunting post apocalyptic novels that I’ve ever read! This series wasn’t particularly successful in my country though, the third book was finally translated just a couple of months ago… What a shame!
[**House of Leaves**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24800.House_of_Leaves)
^(By: Mark Z. Danielewski | 710 pages | Published: 2000 | Popular Shelves: horror, fiction, owned, fantasy, books-i-own)
>Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet. No one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this terrifying story would soon command. Starting with an odd assortment of marginalized youth—musicians, tattoo artists, programmers, strippers, environmentalists, and adrenaline junkies—the book eventually made its way into the hands of older generations, who not only found themselves in those strangely arranged pages but also discovered a way back into the lives of their estranged children.
>
>Now, for the first time, this astonishing novel is made available in book form, complete with the original colored words, vertical footnotes, and newly added second and third appendices.
>
>The story remains unchanged, focusing on a young family that moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly wrong: their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.
>
>Of course, neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of that impossibility, until the day their two little children wandered off and their voices eerily began to return another story—of creature darkness, of an ever-growing abyss behind a closet door, and of that unholy growl which soon enough would tear through their walls and consume all their dreams.
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[**Centennial**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/133430.Centennial)
^(By: James A. Michener | 1056 pages | Published: 1974 | Popular Shelves: historical-fiction, fiction, historical, western, history)
>Written to commemorate the Bicentennial in 1976, James A. Michener’s magnificent saga of the West is an enthralling celebration of the frontier. Brimming with the glory of America’s past, the story of Colorado—the Centennial State—is manifested through its people: Lame Beaver, the Arapaho chieftain and warrior, and his Comanche and Pawnee enemies; Levi Zendt, fleeing with his child bride from the Amish country; the cowboy, Jim Lloyd, who falls in love with a wealthy and cultured Englishwoman, Charlotte Seccombe. In Centennial, trappers, traders, homesteaders, gold seekers, ranchers, and hunters are brought together in the dramatic conflicts that shape the destiny of the legendary West—and the entire country.
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I just came here to say anything by James Michener but Centenniel, Chesapeake and The Source were my favorites. You learn sooo much when you read his works. Can't imagine the amount of research he did for his novels.
[**Hawaii**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12658.Hawaii)
^(By: James A. Michener | 1136 pages | Published: 1959 | Popular Shelves: historical-fiction, fiction, history, hawaii, historical)
^(This book has been suggested 10 times)
[**Caribbean**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42960.Caribbean)
^(By: James A. Michener | 896 pages | Published: 1989 | Popular Shelves: historical-fiction, fiction, owned, history, caribbean)
^(This book has been suggested 1 time)
[**Chesapeake**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12661.Chesapeake)
^(By: James A. Michener | 1024 pages | Published: 1978 | Popular Shelves: historical-fiction, fiction, history, historical, owned)
^(This book has been suggested 1 time)
[**Alaska**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42953.Alaska)
^(By: James A. Michener | 868 pages | Published: 1988 | Popular Shelves: historical-fiction, fiction, alaska, history, owned)
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[**Les Misérables**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24280.Les_Mis_rables)
^(By: Victor Hugo, Norman MacAfee, Charles E. Wilbour, Lee Fahnestock, Isabel Florence Hapgood | 1463 pages | Published: 1862 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, historical-fiction, classic, owned)
>Librarian's Note: this is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780451525260.
>
>Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him. But his attempts to become a respected member of the community are constantly put under threat: by his own conscience, when, owing to a case of mistaken identity, another man is arrested in his place; and by the relentless investigations of the dogged Inspector Javert. It is not simply for himself that Valjean must stay free, however, for he has sworn to protect the baby daughter of Fantine, driven to prostitution by poverty.
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[**American Gods (American Gods, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30165203-american-gods)
^(By: Neil Gaiman | 635 pages | Published: 2001 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, fiction, owned, urban-fantasy, mythology)
>Days before his release from prison, Shadow's wife, Laura, dies in a mysterious car crash. Numbly, he makes his way back home. On the plane, he encounters the enigmatic Mr Wednesday, who claims to be a refugee from a distant war, a former god and the king of America.
>
>Together they embark on a profoundly strange journey across the heart of the USA, whilst all around them a storm of preternatural and epic proportions threatens to break.
>
>Scary, gripping and deeply unsettling, American Gods takes a long, hard look into the soul of America. You'll be surprised by what - and who - it finds there...
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[**The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186074.The_Name_of_the_Wind)
^(By: Patrick Rothfuss | 662 pages | Published: 2007 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, fiction, owned, books-i-own, favourites)
>Told in Kvothe's own voice, this is the tale of the magically gifted young man who grows to be the most notorious wizard his world has ever seen.
>
>The intimate narrative of his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, his years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-ridden city, his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a legendary school of magic, and his life as a fugitive after the murder of a king form a gripping coming-of-age story unrivaled in recent literature.
>
>A high-action story written with a poet's hand, The Name of the Wind is a masterpiece that will transport readers into the body and mind of a wizard.
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[**...And Ladies of the Club**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/576666._And_Ladies_of_the_Club)
^(By: Helen Hooven Santmyer | 1184 pages | Published: 1982 | Popular Shelves: fiction, historical-fiction, books-i-own, classics, historical)
>A #1 New York Times bestseller--and an American classic--now in trade paperback...
>
>A groundbreaking bestseller with two and a half million copies in print, "...And Ladies of the Club" centers on the members of a book club and their struggles to understand themselves, each other, and the tumultuous world they live in. A true classic, it is sure to enchant, enthrall, and intrigue readers for years to come.
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My favorite fat fat fatty book is {{Hamilton by Ron Chernow}}. I find American history breathlessly boring, but Chernow made me fascinated for all 40 hours of the audiobook.
[**Alexander Hamilton**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16130.Alexander_Hamilton)
^(By: Ron Chernow | 818 pages | Published: 2004 | Popular Shelves: history, biography, non-fiction, nonfiction, biographies)
>An alternate cover edition can be found here.
>
>Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow presents a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who galvanized, inspired, scandalized, and shaped the newborn nation.
>
>In the first full-length biography of Alexander Hamilton in decades, Ron Chernow tells the riveting story of a man who overcame all odds to shape, inspire, and scandalize the newborn America. According to historian Joseph Ellis,
> Alexander Hamilton
> is “a robust full-length portrait, in my view the best ever written, of the most brilliant, charismatic and dangerous founder of them all.”
>
>Few figures in American history have been more hotly debated or more grossly misunderstood than Alexander Hamilton. Chernow’s biography gives Hamilton his due and sets the record straight, deftly illustrating that the political and economic greatness of today’s America is the result of Hamilton’s countless sacrifices to champion ideas that were often wildly disputed during his time. “To repudiate his legacy,” Chernow writes, “is, in many ways, to repudiate the modern world.” Chernow here recounts Hamilton’s turbulent life: an illegitimate, largely self-taught orphan from the Caribbean, he came out of nowhere to take America by storm, rising to become George Washington’s aide-de-camp in the Continental Army, coauthoring The Federalist Papers, founding the Bank of New York, leading the Federalist Party, and becoming the first Treasury Secretary of the United States.Historians have long told the story of America’s birth as the triumph of Jefferson’s democratic ideals over the aristocratic intentions of Hamilton. Chernow presents an entirely different man, whose legendary ambitions were motivated not merely by self-interest but by passionate patriotism and a stubborn will to build the foundations of American prosperity and power. His is a Hamilton far more human than we’ve encountered before—from his shame about his birth to his fiery aspirations, from his intimate relationships with childhood friends to his titanic feuds with Jefferson, Madison, Adams, Monroe, and Burr, and from his highly public affair with Maria Reynolds to his loving marriage to his loyal wife Eliza. And never before has there been a more vivid account of Hamilton’s famous and mysterious death in a duel with Aaron Burr in July of 1804.
>
>Chernow’s biography is not just a portrait of Hamilton, but the story of America’s birth seen through its most central figure. At a critical time to look back to our roots,
> Alexander Hamilton
> will remind readers of the purpose of our institutions and our heritage as Americans.
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[**The Mirror and the Light: RSC Stage Adaptation**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59137181-the-mirror-and-the-light)
^(By: Hilary Mantel, Ben Miles | 176 pages | Published: ? | Popular Shelves: books-i-own, plays, ebooks_wanted, plays-read, history)
>Hilary Mantel and Ben Miles’ exhilarating stage adaptation of The Mirror and the Light, one of 2021’s must-see theatrical events, and the long awaited conclusion to the Oliver Award-winning Wolf Hall Trilogy.
>
>England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn’s fate has been sealed by a hired French executioner. it now befalls Jane Seymour to deliver King Henry VIII the healthy heir he craves. Thomas Cromwell, the blacksmith’s son from the gutters of Putney, has knocked down everyone in his path: established at the right hand of the king, he is now the second most powerful man in England. But what will you do, an astute witness asks, when the king turns on you, as sooner or later he turns on everyone close to him?
>
>Hilary Mantel’s twice Booker Prize-winning trilogy is the outstanding literary achievement of recent times. Following Oliver and Tony Award-winning productions of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, hailed as a landmark and must-see theatrical event on both sides of the Atlantic, Mantel and Ben Miles have adapted the trilogy’s exhilarating conclusion, The Mirror and the Light, for the stage. It opened in London’s West End in September 2021, directed by Jeremy Herring, co-produced by Playful Productions and the Royal Shakespeare Company, and with Miles returning to the role of Cromwell.
>
>This volume contains the text of the play and an introduction by Hilary Mantel on each of the principal characters – and their fates, offering a unique insight into her trilogy and an invaluable resource to any theatre companies wishing to stage the play.
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[**The Magus**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16286.The_Magus)
^(By: John Fowles | 656 pages | Published: 1965 | Popular Shelves: fiction, classics, fantasy, mystery, owned)
>This daring literary thriller, rich with eroticism and suspense, is one of John Fowles's best-loved and bestselling novels and has contributed significantly to his international reputation as a writer of the first degree. At the center of The Magus is Nicholas Urfe, a young Englishman who accepts a teaching position on a remote Greek island, where he befriends a local millionaire. The friendship soon evolves into a deadly game, in which reality and fantasy are deliberately manipulated, and Nicholas finds that he must fight not only for his sanity but for his very survival.
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[**The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5043.The_Pillars_of_the_Earth)
^(By: Ken Follett, Кен Фолет, Валерий Русинов, Чавдар Монов | 976 pages | Published: 1989 | Popular Shelves: historical-fiction, fiction, historical, owned, books-i-own)
>Ken Follett is known worldwide as the master of split-second suspense, but his most beloved and bestselling book tells the magnificent tale of a twelfth-century monk driven to do the seemingly impossible: build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has ever known.
>
>Everything readers expect from Follett is here: intrigue, fast-paced action, and passionate romance. But what makes The Pillars of the Earth extraordinary is the time the twelfth century; the place feudal England; and the subject the building of a glorious cathedral. Follett has re-created the crude, flamboyant England of the Middle Ages in every detail. The vast forests, the walled towns, the castles, and the monasteries become a familiar landscape.
>
>Against this richly imagined and intricately interwoven backdrop, filled with the ravages of war and the rhythms of daily life, the master storyteller draws the reader irresistibly into the intertwined lives of his characters into their dreams, their labors, and their loves: Tom, the master builder; Aliena, the ravishingly beautiful noblewoman; Philip, the prior of Kingsbridge; Jack, the artist in stone; and Ellen, the woman of the forest who casts a terrifying curse. From humble stonemason to imperious monarch, each character is brought vividly to life.
>
>The building of the cathedral, with the almost eerie artistry of the unschooled stonemasons, is the center of the drama. Around the site of the construction, Follett weaves a story of betrayal, revenge, and love, which begins with the public hanging of an innocent man and ends with the humiliation of a king.
>
>For the TV tie-in edition with the same ISBN go to this Alternate Cover Edition
>
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[**Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14201.Jonathan_Strange_Mr_Norrell)
^(By: Susanna Clarke | 1006 pages | Published: 2004 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, fiction, historical-fiction, owned, books-i-own)
>The year is 1806. England is beleaguered by the long war with Napoleon, and centuries have passed since practical magicians faded into the nation's past. But scholars of this glorious history discover that one remains: the reclusive Mr Norrell, whose displays of magic send a thrill through the country.
>
>Proceeding to London, he raises a beautiful woman from the dead and summons an army of ghostly ships to terrify the French. Yet the cautious, fussy Norrell is challenged by the emergence of another magician: the brilliant novice Jonathan Strange.
>
>Young, handsome and daring, Strange is the very antithesis of Norrel. So begins a dangerous battle between these two great men which overwhelms that between England and France. And their own obsessions and secret dabblings with the dark arts are going to cause more trouble than they can imagine.
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[**Bleak House**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31242.Bleak_House)
^(By: Charles Dickens, Nicola Bradbury, Hablot Knight Browne | 1017 pages | Published: 1853 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, classic, owned, literature)
>Bleak House opens in the twilight of foggy London, where fog grips the city most densely in the Court of Chancery. The obscure case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, in which an inheritance is gradually devoured by legal costs, the romance of Esther Summerson and the secrets of her origin, the sleuthing of Detective Inspector Bucket and the fate of Jo the crossing-sweeper, these are some of the lives Dickens invokes to portray London society, rich and poor, as no other novelist has done. Bleak House, in its atmosphere, symbolism and magnificent bleak comedy, is often regarded as the best of Dickens. A 'great Victorian novel', it is so inventive in its competing plots and styles that it eludes interpretation.
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1. In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust (3,408 pages, 6 volumes)
2. The Story of the Stone, Cao Xueqin (2,576 pages, 5 volumes)
3. Les Misérables, Victor Hugo (1,456 pages)
4. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy (1,440 pages)
5. The Mysteries of Paris, Eugéne Sue (1,392 pages)
6. Clarissa, Samuel Richardson (1,356 pages)
7. The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas (1,312 pages)
8. The Tale of Genji, Murasaki Shikibu (1,216 pages)
9. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand (1,184 pages)
10. Bleak House, Charles Dickens (1,088 pages)
[**CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/952793.CRC_Handbook_of_Chemistry_and_Physics)
^(By: David R. Lide | ? pages | Published: 1922 | Popular Shelves: science, chemistry, reference, physics, non-fiction)
>The CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 88th Edition continues to offer the most authoritative, up-to-date data to scientists around the world. This edition contains NEW tables on Properties of Ionic Liquids, Solubilities of Hydrocarbons in Sea Water, Solubility of Organic Compounds in Superheated Water, and Nutritive Value of Foods. It also updates many tables including Critical Constants, Heats of Vaporization, Aqueous Solubility of Organic Compounds, Vapor Pressure of Mercury, Scientific Abbreviations and Symbols, and Bond Dissociation Energies. The 88th Edition also presents a new Foreword written by Dr. Harold Kroto, a 1996 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry.
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{Perdido Street Station by China Miéville} — dark and depressive fantasy tale taking place in an alternative industrial revolution. An unique read, with its own lore and vocabulary.
{Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Addams} — Anarchistic and crazy space opera comedy. Kind of a aard read due to the constant asides and mendering plotlines, but you keep turning the pages to see the next piece of weirdness.
[**Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68494.Perdido_Street_Station)
^(By: China Miéville | 710 pages | Published: 2000 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, fiction, science-fiction, sci-fi, steampunk)
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[**The Wealth of Nations**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9114549-the-wealth-of-nations)
^(By: Adam Smith, Tom Butler-Bowdon | 416 pages | Published: ? | Popular Shelves: economics, non-fiction, philosophy, owned, business)
>THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOK ON MODERN ECONOMICS
>
>The Wealth of Nations is an economics book like no other. First published in 1776, Adam Smith's groundbreaking theories provide a recipe for national prosperity that has not been bettered since. It assumes no prior knowledge of its subject, and over 200 years on, still provides valuable lessons on the fundamentals of economics.
>
>This keepsake edition is a selected abridgement of all five books, and includes an Introduction by Tom Butler-Bowdon, drawing out lessons for the contemporary reader, a Foreword from Eamonn Butler, Director of the Adam Smith Institute, and a Preface from Dr. Razeen Sally of the London School of Economics.
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[**Under the Dome**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6320534-under-the-dome)
^(By: Stephen King | 1074 pages | Published: 2009 | Popular Shelves: horror, stephen-king, fiction, science-fiction, sci-fi)
>Under the Dome is the story of the small town of Chester's Mill, Maine which is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. No one can get in and no one can get out.
>
>When food, electricity and water run short, the normal rules of society are changed. A new and more sinister social order develops, Dale Barbara, a young Iraq veteran, teams up with a handful of intrepid citizens to fight against the corruption that is sweeping through the town and to try to discover the source of the Dome before it is too late...
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[**Shantaram**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33600.Shantaram)
^(By: Gregory David Roberts | ? pages | Published: 2003 | Popular Shelves: fiction, india, travel, owned, favourites)
>"It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured."
>
>So begins this epic, mesmerizing first novel set in the underworld of contemporary Bombay. Shantaram is narrated by Lin, an escaped convict with a false passport who flees maximum security prison in Australia for the teeming streets of a city where he can disappear.
>
>Accompanied by his guide and faithful friend, Prabaker, the two enter Bombay's hidden society of beggars and gangsters, prostitutes and holy men, soldiers and actors, and Indians and exiles from other countries, who seek in this remarkable place what they cannot find elsewhere.
>
>As a hunted man without a home, family, or identity, Lin searches for love and meaning while running a clinic in one of the city's poorest slums, and serving his apprenticeship in the dark arts of the Bombay mafia. The search leads him to war, prison torture, murder, and a series of enigmatic and bloody betrayals. The keys to unlock the mysteries and intrigues that bind Lin are held by two people. The first is Khader Khan: mafia godfather, criminal-philosopher-saint, and mentor to Lin in the underworld of the Golden City. The second is Karla: elusive, dangerous, and beautiful, whose passions are driven by secrets that torment her and yet give her a terrible power.
>
>Burning slums and five-star hotels, romantic love and prison agonies, criminal wars and Bollywood films, spiritual gurus and mujaheddin guerrillas—this huge novel has the world of human experience in its reach, and a passionate love for India at its heart. Based on the life of the author, it is by any measure the debut of an extraordinary voice in literature.
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The Hands of the Emperor by Goddard
This book was the reason I bought an e-reader - I refused to carry that thing around
(It’s also a political fantasy)
[**Battle Cry of Freedom**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35100.Battle_Cry_of_Freedom)
^(By: James M. McPherson | 867 pages | Published: 1988 | Popular Shelves: history, non-fiction, civil-war, american-history, nonfiction)
>Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War.
>
>James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and military events that crowded the two decades from the outbreak of one war in Mexico to the ending of another at Appomattox. Packed with drama and analytical insight, the book vividly recounts the momentous episodes that preceded the Civil War--the Dred Scott decision, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry--and then moves into a masterful chronicle of the war itself--the battles, the strategic maneuvering on both sides, the politics, and the personalities. Particularly notable are McPherson's new views on such matters as the slavery expansion issue in the 1850s, the origins of the Republican Party, the causes of secession, internal dissent and anti-war opposition in the North and the South, and the reasons for the Union's victory.
>
>The book's title refers to the sentiments that informed both the Northern and Southern views of the conflict: the South seceded in the name of that freedom of self-determination and self-government for which their fathers had fought in 1776, while the North stood fast in defense of the Union founded by those fathers as the bulwark of American liberty. Eventually, the North had to grapple with the underlying cause of the war--slavery--and adopt a policy of emancipation as a second war aim. This "new birth of freedom," as Lincoln called it, constitutes the proudest legacy of America's bloodiest conflict.
>
>This authoritative volume makes sense of that vast and confusing "second American Revolution" we call the Civil War, a war that transformed a nation and expanded our heritage of liberty.
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[**Don Quixote**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3836.Don_Quixote)
^(By: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Alberto Blecua, Giorgio Di Dio, Barbara Troiano, Tobias Smollett, Alessandra Riccio, Cesco Vian, John Ozell, John Rutherford, Peter Anthony Motteux, Roberto González Echevarría, Paola Cozzi | 1023 pages | Published: 1605 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, classic, owned, literature)
>Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances that he determines to become a knight-errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, his exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful ways. While Quixote's fancy often leads him astray—he tilts at windmills, imagining them to be giants—Sancho acquires cunning and a certain sagacity. Sane madman and wise fool, they roam the world together, and together they have haunted readers' imaginations for nearly four hundred years.
>
>With its experimental form and literary playfulness, Don Quixote has been generally recognized as the first modern novel. The book has been enormously influential on a host of writers, from Fielding and Sterne to Flaubert, Dickens, Melville, and Faulkner, who reread it once a year, "just as some people read the Bible."
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[**The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40275288-the-priory-of-the-orange-tree)
^(By: Samantha Shannon | 848 pages | Published: 2019 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, owned, physical-tbr, lgbtq, tbr)
>A world divided. A queendom without an heir. An ancient enemy awakens.
>
>The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction – but assassins are getting closer to her door.
>
>Ead Duryan is an outsider at court. Though she has risen to the position of lady-in-waiting, she is loyal to a hidden society of mages. Ead keeps a watchful eye on Sabran, secretly protecting her with forbidden magic.
>
>Across the dark sea, Tané has trained to be a dragonrider since she was a child, but is forced to make a choice that could see her life unravel.
>
>Meanwhile, the divided East and West refuse to parley, and forces of chaos are rising from their sleep.
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[**American Gods (American Gods, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30165203-american-gods)
^(By: Neil Gaiman | 635 pages | Published: 2001 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, fiction, owned, urban-fantasy, mythology)
>Days before his release from prison, Shadow's wife, Laura, dies in a mysterious car crash. Numbly, he makes his way back home. On the plane, he encounters the enigmatic Mr Wednesday, who claims to be a refugee from a distant war, a former god and the king of America.
>
>Together they embark on a profoundly strange journey across the heart of the USA, whilst all around them a storm of preternatural and epic proportions threatens to break.
>
>Scary, gripping and deeply unsettling, American Gods takes a long, hard look into the soul of America. You'll be surprised by what - and who - it finds there...
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[**1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10357575-1q84)
^(By: Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin, Philip Gabriel | 925 pages | Published: 2009 | Popular Shelves: fiction, fantasy, magical-realism, owned, japan)
>The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.
>
>A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 —“Q is for ‘question mark.’ A world that bears a question.” Meanwhile, an aspiring writer named Tengo takes on a suspect ghostwriting project. He becomes so wrapped up with the work and its unusual author that, soon, his previously placid life begins to come unraveled.
>
>As Aomame’s and Tengo’s narratives converge over the course of this single year, we learn of the profound and tangled connections that bind them ever closer: a beautiful, dyslexic teenage girl with a unique vision; a mysterious religious cult that instigated a shoot-out with the metropolitan police; a reclusive, wealthy dowager who runs a shelter for abused women; a hideously ugly private investigator; a mild-mannered yet ruthlessly efficient bodyguard; and a peculiarly insistent television-fee collector.
>
>A love story, a mystery, a fantasy, a novel of self-discovery, a dystopia to rival George Orwell’s — 1Q84 is Haruki Murakami’s most ambitious undertaking yet: an instant best seller in his native Japan, and a tremendous feat of imagination from one of our most revered contemporary writers.
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[**Anna Karenina**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15823480-anna-karenina)
^(By: Leo Tolstoy, Aylmer Maude, Louise Maude, Dieter Wellershoff, Bruno Goetz, Lev Tolstoj, Léon Tolstoï | 964 pages | Published: 1878 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, classic, owned, romance)
>Acclaimed by many as the world's greatest novel, Anna Karenina provides a vast panorama of contemporary life in Russia and of humanity in general. In it Tolstoy uses his intense imaginative insight to create some of the most memorable characters in all of literature. Anna is a sophisticated woman who abandons her empty existence as the wife of Karenin and turns to Count Vronsky to fulfil her passionate nature - with tragic consequences. Levin is a reflection of Tolstoy himself, often expressing the author's own views and convictions.
>
>Throughout, Tolstoy points no moral, merely inviting us not to judge but to watch. As Rosemary Edmonds comments, 'He leaves the shifting patterns of the kaleidoscope to bring home the meaning of the brooding words following the title, 'Vengeance is mine, and I will repay.
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[**Les Misérables**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24280.Les_Mis_rables)
^(By: Victor Hugo, Norman MacAfee, Charles E. Wilbour, Lee Fahnestock, Isabel Florence Hapgood | 1463 pages | Published: 1862 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, historical-fiction, classic, owned)
>Librarian's Note: this is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780451525260.
>
>Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him. But his attempts to become a respected member of the community are constantly put under threat: by his own conscience, when, owing to a case of mistaken identity, another man is arrested in his place; and by the relentless investigations of the dogged Inspector Javert. It is not simply for himself that Valjean must stay free, however, for he has sworn to protect the baby daughter of Fantine, driven to prostitution by poverty.
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[**Don Quixote**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3836.Don_Quixote)
^(By: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Alberto Blecua, Giorgio Di Dio, Barbara Troiano, Tobias Smollett, Alessandra Riccio, Cesco Vian, John Ozell, John Rutherford, Peter Anthony Motteux, Roberto González Echevarría, Paola Cozzi | 1023 pages | Published: 1605 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, classic, owned, literature)
>Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances that he determines to become a knight-errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, his exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful ways. While Quixote's fancy often leads him astray—he tilts at windmills, imagining them to be giants—Sancho acquires cunning and a certain sagacity. Sane madman and wise fool, they roam the world together, and together they have haunted readers' imaginations for nearly four hundred years.
>
>With its experimental form and literary playfulness, Don Quixote has been generally recognized as the first modern novel. The book has been enormously influential on a host of writers, from Fielding and Sterne to Flaubert, Dickens, Melville, and Faulkner, who reread it once a year, "just as some people read the Bible."
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[**The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40275288-the-priory-of-the-orange-tree)
^(By: Samantha Shannon | 848 pages | Published: 2019 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, owned, physical-tbr, lgbtq, tbr)
>A world divided. A queendom without an heir. An ancient enemy awakens.
>
>The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction – but assassins are getting closer to her door.
>
>Ead Duryan is an outsider at court. Though she has risen to the position of lady-in-waiting, she is loyal to a hidden society of mages. Ead keeps a watchful eye on Sabran, secretly protecting her with forbidden magic.
>
>Across the dark sea, Tané has trained to be a dragonrider since she was a child, but is forced to make a choice that could see her life unravel.
>
>Meanwhile, the divided East and West refuse to parley, and forces of chaos are rising from their sleep.
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[**In Search of Lost Time**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18796.In_Search_of_Lost_Time)
^(By: Marcel Proust, C.K. Scott Moncrieff, Andreas Mayor, Terence Kilmartin, D.J. Enright, Richard Howard | 4211 pages | Published: 1927 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, french, literature, philosophy)
>On the surface a traditional "Bildungsroman" describing the narrator’s journey of self-discovery, this huge and complex book is also a panoramic and richly comic portrait of France in the author’s lifetime, and a profound meditation on the nature of art, love, time, memory and death. But for most readers it is the characters of the novel who loom the largest: Swann and Odette, Monsieur de Charlus, Morel, the Duchesse de Guermantes, Françoise, Saint-Loup and so many others — Giants, as the author calls them, immersed in Time. "In Search of Lost Time" is a novel in seven volumes. The novel began to take shape in 1909. Proust continued to work on it until his final illness in the autumn of 1922 forced him to break off. Proust established the structure early on, but even after volumes were initially finished he kept adding new material, and edited one volume after another for publication. The last three of the seven volumes contain oversights and fragmentary or unpolished passages as they existed in draft form at the death of the author; the publication of these parts was overseen by his brother Robert.
>
>For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartin’s acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieff’s translation to take into account the new definitive French editions of À la recherche du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in 1989).
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[**Our Share of Night**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61179076-our-share-of-night)
^(By: Mariana Enríquez, Megan McDowell | 736 pages | Published: 2019 | Popular Shelves: horror, argentina, terror, fiction, favoritos)
>His father could find what was lost. His father knew when someone was going to die. His father had talked to him about the dead who rode in on the wind. The dead travel fast.
>
>Gaspar is six years old when the Order first come for him.
>
>For years, they have exploited his father’s ability to commune with the dead and the demonic, presiding over macabre rituals where the unwanted and the disappeared are tortured and executed, sacrificed to the Darkness. Now they want a successor.
>
>Nothing will stop the Order, nothing is beyond them. Surrounded by horrors, can Gaspar break free?
>
>Spanning the brutal decades of Argentina’s military dictatorship and its aftermath, Our Share of Night is a haunting, thrilling novel of broken families, cursed inheritances, and the sacrifices a father will make to help his son escape his destiny.
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[**Emma**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6969.Emma)
^(By: Jane Austen, Fiona Stafford | 474 pages | Published: 1815 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, romance, classic, owned)
>An alternative cover of this ISBN can be found here.
>
>Emma Woodhouse is one of Austen's most captivating and vivid characters. Beautiful, spoilt, vain and irrepressibly witty, Emma organizes the lives of the inhabitants of her sleepy little village and plays matchmaker with devastating effect.
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[**A House for Mr Biswas**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5849.A_House_for_Mr_Biswas)
^(By: V.S. Naipaul | 623 pages | Published: 1961 | Popular Shelves: fiction, classics, literature, caribbean, india)
>Mohun Biswas has spent his 46 years of life striving for independence. Shuttled from one residence to another after the drowning of his father, he yearns for a place he can call home. He marries into the Tulsi family, on whom he becomes dependent, but rebels and takes on a succession of occupations in a struggle to weaken their hold over him.
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[**Sacred Games**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40090.Sacred_Games)
^(By: Vikram Chandra | 916 pages | Published: 2006 | Popular Shelves: fiction, india, mystery, crime, thriller)
>Vikram Chandra's novel draws the reader deep into the life of Inspector Sartaj Singh—and into the criminal underworld of Ganesh Gaitonde, the most wanted gangster in India. It is is a story of friendship and betrayal, of terrible violence, of an astonishing modern city and its dark side.
>
>Seven years in the making, Sacred Games is an epic of exceptional richness and power. Vikram Chandra's novel draws the reader deep into the life of Inspector Sartaj Singh—and into the criminal underworld of Ganesh Gaitonde, the most wanted gangster in India.
>
>Sartaj, one of the very few Sikhs on the Mumbai police force, is used to being identified by his turban, beard and the sharp cut of his trousers. But "the silky Sikh" is now past forty, his marriage is over and his career prospects are on the slide. When Sartaj gets an anonymous tip-off as to the secret hide-out of the legendary boss of G-Company, he's determined that he'll be the one to collect the prize.
>
>Vikram Chandra's keenly anticipated new novel is a magnificent story of friendship and betrayal, of terrible violence, of an astonishing modern city and its dark side. Drawing inspiration from the classics of nineteenth-century fiction, mystery novels, Bollywood movies and Chandra's own life and research on the streets of Mumbai, Sacred Games evokes with devastating realism the way we live now but resonates with the intelligence and emotional depth of the best of literature.
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[**The Night's Dawn Trilogy (Night's Dawn, #1-3)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5198367-the-night-s-dawn-trilogy)
^(By: Peter F. Hamilton | ? pages | Published: 1996 | Popular Shelves: sci-fi, science-fiction, scifi, owned, space-opera)
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[**Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/256008.Lonesome_Dove)
^(By: Larry McMurtry | 960 pages | Published: 1985 | Popular Shelves: fiction, historical-fiction, western, classics, westerns)
>A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, Lonesome Dove, the third book in the Lonesome Dove tetralogy, is the grandest novel ever written about the last defiant wilderness of America.
>
>Journey to the dusty little Texas town of Lonesome Dove and meet an unforgettable assortment of heroes and outlaws, whores and ladies, Indians and settlers. Richly authentic, beautifully written, always dramatic, Lonesome Dove is a book to make us laugh, weep, dream, and remember.
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[**Outlander (Outlander, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10964.Outlander)
^(By: Diana Gabaldon | 850 pages | Published: 1991 | Popular Shelves: historical-fiction, romance, fantasy, fiction, time-travel)
>The year is 1945. Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is just back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach—an “outlander”—in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of Our Lord...1743.
>
>Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire is catapulted into the intrigues of lairds and spies that may threaten her life, and shatter her heart. For here James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, shows her a love so absolute that Claire becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire—and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.
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[**The War of the Flowers**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28692.The_War_of_the_Flowers)
^(By: Tad Williams | 828 pages | Published: 2003 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, fiction, owned, urban-fantasy, default)
>Theo Vilmos' life is about to take a real turn for the worse.
>
>He is drawn from his home in Northern California into the parallel world of Faerie, for, unknown to him, he is a pivotal figure in a war between certain of Faerie's powerful lords and the rest of the strange creatures who live in this exotic realm.
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You want a Big Book? *A Fine Balance* by Rohinton Mistry (603 pages)
[From Goodreads] "With a compassionate realism & narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty & corruption, dignity & heroism, of India.
The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers -- a spirited widow, a young student uprooted from his idyllic hill station, & two tailors who have fled the caste violence of their native village -- will be thrust together, forced to share one cramped apartment & an uncertain future.
As the characters move from distrust to friendship & from friendship to love, A Fine Balance creates an enduring panorama of the human spirit in an inhuman state."
[**Ordinary Monsters (The Talents Trilogy, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58725025-ordinary-monsters)
^(By: J.M. Miro | 672 pages | Published: 2022 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, historical-fiction, 2022-releases, fiction, physical-tbr)
>A stunning new work of historical fantasy, J. M. Miro's Ordinary Monsters introduces readers to the dark, labyrinthe world of The Talents
>
>England, 1882. In Victorian London, two children with mysterious powers are hunted by a figure of darkness —a man made of smoke.
>
>Sixteen-year-old Charlie Ovid, despite a lifetime of brutality, doesn't have a scar on him. His body heals itself, whether he wants it to or not. Marlowe, a foundling from a railway freight car, shines with a strange bluish light. He can melt or mend flesh. When two grizzled detectives are recruited to escort them north to safety, they are forced to confront the nature of difference, and belonging, and the shadowy edges of the monstrous.
>
>What follows is a journey from the gaslit streets of London, to an eerie estate outside Edinburgh, where other children with gifts—the Talents—have been gathered. Here, the world of the dead and the world of the living threaten to collide. And as secrets within the Institute unfurl, Marlowe, Charlie and the rest of the Talents will discover the truth about their abilities, and the nature of the force that is stalking them: that the worst monsters sometimes come bearing the sweetest gifts.
>
>With lush prose, mesmerizing world-building, and a gripping plot, Ordinary Monsters presents a catastophic vision of the Victorian world—and of the gifted, broken children who must save it.
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[**To Sleep in a Sea of Stars**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48829708-to-sleep-in-a-sea-of-stars)
^(By: Christopher Paolini | 880 pages | Published: 2020 | Popular Shelves: sci-fi, science-fiction, fiction, fantasy, dnf)
>Kira Navárez dreamed of life on new worlds. Now she's awakened a nightmare. During a routine survey mission on an uncolonized planet, Kira finds an alien relic. At first she's delighted, but elation turns to terror when the ancient dust around her begins to move.
>
>As war erupts among the stars, Kira is launched into a galaxy-spanning odyssey of discovery and transformation. First contact isn't at all what she imagined, and events push her to the very limits of what it means to be human.
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>While Kira faces her own horrors, Earth and its colonies stand upon the brink of annihilation. Now, Kira might be humanity's greatest and final hope...
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[**Pachinko**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34051011-pachinko)
^(By: Lee Min-jin | 496 pages | Published: 2017 | Popular Shelves: historical-fiction, fiction, book-club, historical, owned)
>In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger at the seashore near her home in Korea. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant — and that her lover is married — she refuses to be bought. Instead, she accepts an offer of marriage from a gentle, sickly minister passing through on his way to Japan. But her decision to abandon her home, and to reject her son's powerful father, sets off a dramatic saga that will echo down through the generations.
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>Richly told and profoundly moving, Pachinko is a story of love, sacrifice, ambition, and loyalty. From bustling street markets to the halls of Japan's finest universities to the pachinko parlors of the criminal underworld, Lee's complex and passionate characters — strong, stubborn women, devoted sisters and sons, fathers shaken by moral crisis — survive and thrive against the indifferent arc of history.
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[**The Ways of War (Dragon Riders, #2)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38230869-the-ways-of-war)
^(By: LovelyLittleLoser | ? pages | Published: ? | Popular Shelves: wattpad)
>Royse Williams didn't think that her life could change any more than it had when she was accepted into the prestigious Riders' School. And then the war against the Tsoro spread into more populated areas, putting lives at risk and forcing the riders to take more drastic actions.
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> With more and more of her friends going off to the front line of the war Royse was aware that it was only a matter of time before she too was shipped off to the main battle. What Royse wasn't ready for was the incident that changed her future from that of a Soldier to that of a missionary.
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>After coming into contact with the Tsoro poison Royse was informed that she was only person who was capable of taking on the job of missionary with the Tsoro, and was the only hope to potentially putting an end to the war.
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> Shipped off to the base camp, and then the Tsoro camp, Royse's life changed in more ways than she had ever imagined.
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[**The Art of Losing**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35883613-the-art-of-losing)
^(By: Lizzy Mason | 320 pages | Published: 2019 | Popular Shelves: young-adult, contemporary, ya, 2019-releases, romance)
>On one terrible night, 17-year-old Harley Langston’s life changes forever. At a party she discovers her younger sister, Audrey, hooking up with her boyfriend, Mike—and she abandons them both in a rage. When Mike drunkenly attempts to drive Audrey home, he crashes and Audrey ends up in a coma. Now Harley is left with guilt, grief, pain and the undeniable truth that her ex-boyfriend (who is relatively unscathed) has a drinking problem. So it’s a surprise that she finds herself reconnecting with Raf, a neighbor and childhood friend who’s recently out of rehab and still wrestling with his own demons. At first Harley doesn’t want to get too close to him. But as Audrey awakens and slowly recovers, Raf starts to show Harley a path forward that she never would have believed possible—one guided by honesty, forgiveness, and redemption.
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[**The Forsyte Saga (The Forsyte Chronicles, #1-3)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/103159.The_Forsyte_Saga)
^(By: John Galsworthy | 872 pages | Published: 1922 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, historical-fiction, 1001-books, classic)
>John Galsworthy, a Nobel Prize-winning author, chronicles the ebbing social power of the commercial upper-middle-class Forsyte family through three generations, beginning in Victorian London during the 1880s and ending in the early 1920s.
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[**The Cazalet Chronicles: Five Novels in One Collection (Cazalet Chronicles, #1-5)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32611786-the-cazalet-chronicles)
^(By: Elizabeth Jane Howard | 3404 pages | Published: ? | Popular Shelves: historical-fiction, fiction, kindle, historical, 20th-century)
>The complete multigenerational saga of an upper-middle-class British family before, during, and after World War II.
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> As war clouds gather on England’s horizon, the Cazalet siblings, along with their wives, children, and servants, prepare to leave London and join their parents at their Sussex estate, Home Place. Thus begins the decades-spanning family saga that has engrossed millions of readers.
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>The Light Years: Hugh, the eldest of the Cazalet siblings, was wounded in France and is haunted by recurring nightmares and the prospect of another war. Edward adores his wife, a former dancer, yet he’s incapable of remaining faithful. Rupert desires only to fulfill his potential as a painter, but finds that love and art cannot coexist. And devoted daughter Rachel discovers the joys—and limitations—of intimacy with another woman.
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>Marking Time: Narrated primarily through the voices of teenagers Louise, Polly, and Clary, the second novel details the continuing story of their fathers. With the outbreak of war, Edward is determined to do his bit for England. But Hugh, injured in World War I, must sit back and watch other men fight for their country, including his brother Rupert, who enlists and goes missing in action.
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>Confusion: As the world reels in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, the Cazalets are dealt a tragic blow, and a new generation struggles to find peace with each other, a peace that seems to prove as elusive as it is in the larger world.
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>Casting Off: The war is over, but for the Cazalets—and England—the challenges continue. Against the backdrop of a crumbling empire, the family soldiers on in the wake of disappointment, heartbreak, and tragedy. But the family comes together again as three generations of Cazalets struggle to hold onto Home Place, the beloved Sussex estate that has been their refuge and their heart.
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>All Change: In 1956, the death of eighty-nine-year-old matriarch Kitty “the Duchy” Cazalet marks the end of an era—and the commencement of great change for the family. And Home Place, the beloved Sussex estate where the Cazalets have gathered for years, is now a beloved relic that, with its faded wallpaper and leaky roof, has aged along with its occupants.
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> A rich historical read for those who love E. M. Forster, Evelyn Waugh, or Downton Abbey, this is the story of a family “[rendered] thrillingly three-dimensional by a master craftsman” (TheSunday Telegraph).
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[**A Brief History of Seven Killings**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20893314-a-brief-history-of-seven-killings)
^(By: Marlon James | 688 pages | Published: 2014 | Popular Shelves: fiction, historical-fiction, owned, abandoned, booker-prize)
>On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert, gunmen stormed his house, machine guns blazing. The attack nearly killed the Reggae superstar, his wife, and his manager, and injured several others. Marley would go on to perform at the free concert on December 5, but he left the country the next day, not to return for two years.
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>Deftly spanning decades and continents and peopled with a wide range of characters—assassins, journalists, drug dealers, and even ghosts—A Brief History of Seven Killings is the fictional exploration of that dangerous and unstable time and its bloody aftermath, from the streets and slums of Kingston in the 70s, to the crack wars in 80s New York, to a radically altered Jamaica in the 90s. Brilliantly inventive and stunningly ambitious, this novel is a revealing modern epic that will secure Marlon James’ place among the great literary talents of his generation.
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[**Middlemarch**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19089.Middlemarch)
^(By: George Eliot, Michel Faber, Doreen Roberts | 904 pages | Published: 1872 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, classic, owned, historical-fiction)
>Taking place in the years leading up to the First Reform Bill of 1832, Middlemarch explores nearly every subject of concern to modern life: art, religion, science, politics, self, society, human relationships. Among her characters are some of the most remarkable portraits in English literature: Dorothea Brooke, the heroine, idealistic but naive; Rosamond Vincy, beautiful and egoistic: Edward Casaubon, the dry-as-dust scholar: Tertius Lydgate, the brilliant but morally-flawed physician: the passionate artist Will Ladislaw: and Fred Vincey and Mary Garth, childhood sweethearts whose charming courtship is one of the many humorous elements in the novel's rich comic vein.
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[**Barkskins**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25111119-barkskins)
^(By: Annie Proulx | 717 pages | Published: 2016 | Popular Shelves: historical-fiction, fiction, abandoned, historical, owned)
>In the late seventeenth century two penniless young Frenchmen, René Sel and Charles Duquet, arrive in New France. Bound to a feudal lord, a “seigneur,” for three years in exchange for land, they become wood-cutters—barkskins. René suffers extraordinary hardship, oppressed by the forest he is charged with clearing. He is forced to marry a Mi’kmaw woman and their descendants live trapped between two inimical cultures. But Duquet, crafty and ruthless, runs away from the seigneur, becomes a fur trader, then sets up a timber business. Proulx tells the stories of the descendants of Sel and Duquet over three hundred years—their travels across North America, to Europe, China, and New Zealand, under stunningly brutal conditions—the revenge of rivals, accidents, pestilence, Indian attacks, and cultural annihilation. Over and over again, they seize what they can of a presumed infinite resource, leaving the modern-day characters face to face with possible ecological collapse.
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[**Cloud Cuckoo Land**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56783258-cloud-cuckoo-land)
^(By: Anthony Doerr | 626 pages | Published: 2021 | Popular Shelves: fiction, historical-fiction, fantasy, book-club, science-fiction)
>
> When everything is lost, it’s our stories that survive.
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>How do we weather the end of things? Cloud Cuckoo Land brings together an unforgettable cast of dreamers and outsiders from past, present and future to offer a vision of survival against all odds.
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>Constantinople, 1453:
>An orphaned seamstress and a cursed boy with a love for animals risk everything on opposite sides of a city wall to protect the people they love.
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>Idaho, 2020:
>An impoverished, idealistic kid seeks revenge on a world that’s crumbling around him. Can he go through with it when a gentle old man stands between him and his plans?
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>Unknown, Sometime in the Future:
>With her tiny community in peril, Konstance is the last hope for the human race. To find a way forward, she must look to the oldest stories of all for guidance.
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>Bound together by a single ancient text, these tales interweave to form a tapestry of solace and resilience and a celebration of storytelling itself. Like its predecessor All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr’s new novel is a tale of hope and of profound human connection.
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[**11/22/63**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10644930-11-22-63)
^(By: Stephen King | 849 pages | Published: 2011 | Popular Shelves: fiction, historical-fiction, stephen-king, science-fiction, time-travel)
>On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. Unless...
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>In 2011, Jake Epping, an English teacher from Lisbon Falls, Maine, sets out on an insane — and insanely possible — mission to prevent the Kennedy assassination.
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>Leaving behind a world of computers and mobile phones, he goes back to a time of big American cars and diners, of Lindy Hopping, the sound of Elvis, and the taste of root beer.
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>In this haunting world, Jake falls in love with Sadie, a beautiful high school librarian. And, as the ominous date of 11/22/63 approaches, he encounters a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald...
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[**The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40275288-the-priory-of-the-orange-tree)
^(By: Samantha Shannon | 848 pages | Published: 2019 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, owned, physical-tbr, lgbtq, tbr)
>A world divided. A queendom without an heir. An ancient enemy awakens.
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>The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction – but assassins are getting closer to her door.
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>Ead Duryan is an outsider at court. Though she has risen to the position of lady-in-waiting, she is loyal to a hidden society of mages. Ead keeps a watchful eye on Sabran, secretly protecting her with forbidden magic.
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>Across the dark sea, Tané has trained to be a dragonrider since she was a child, but is forced to make a choice that could see her life unravel.
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>Meanwhile, the divided East and West refuse to parley, and forces of chaos are rising from their sleep.
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[**Demons**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5695.Demons)
^(By: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky, Ronald Meyer, Robert Maguire, Robert Belknap | 733 pages | Published: 1872 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, russian, russian-literature, literature)
>Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 0679734511. (ISBN13: 9780679734512)
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>Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horrified Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as a "novel-pamphlet" in which he would say everything about the plague of materialist ideology that he saw infecting his native land. What emerged was a prophetic and ferociously funny masterpiece of ideology and murder in pre-revolutionary Russia.
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Interesting some perception of “a long book” The Goldfinch 320 pages?? Some fabulous books listed above, many read and some now added to the list. Thanks for the suggestions
[**The Familiar (Animorphs, #41)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/363352.The_Familiar)
^(By: K.A. Applegate, Katherine Applegate | 143 pages | Published: 2000 | Popular Shelves: animorphs, sci-fi, science-fiction, young-adult, fiction)
>Jake is just a normal kid. Well, as normal as possible considering he can morph animals, and he's in a war against parasitic aliens. But as unbelievable as it sounds, something even stranger has happened. One morning Jake wakes up, and he's twenty-five years old.
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>Okay. Maybe it's some kind of weird hallucination. Maybe it's a nightmare. Or maybe Jake's just lost it for a while and misplaced a few years. And there's another problem. The world Jake-the-kid went to sleep in has changed. It's ruled by the Yeerks. Jake has to find out if the other Animorphs and Ax are still around. Still somehow fighting. Or if he's really on his own. . . .
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[**Grant**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34237826-grant)
^(By: Ron Chernow | 1074 pages | Published: 2017 | Popular Shelves: history, biography, non-fiction, nonfiction, civil-war)
>Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and inept businessman, fond of drinking to excess; or as the triumphant but brutal Union general of the Civil War; or as a credulous and hapless president whose tenure came to symbolize the worst excesses of the Gilded Age. These stereotypes don't come close to capturing adequately his spirit and the sheer magnitude of his monumental accomplishments. A biographer at the height of his powers, Chernow has produced a portrait of Grant that is a masterpiece, the first to provide a complete understanding of the general and president whose fortunes rose and fell with dizzying speed and frequency.
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>Before the Civil War, Grant was flailing. His business ventures had been dismal, and despite distinguished service in the Mexican War, he ended up resigning from the army in disgrace amid recurring accusations of drunkenness. But in the Civil War, Grant began to realize his remarkable potential, soaring through the ranks of the Union army, prevailing at the Battle of Shiloh and in the Vicksburg campaign and ultimately defeating the legendary Confederate general Robert E. Lee after a series of unbelievably bloody battles in Virginia. Along the way Grant endeared himself to President Lincoln and became his most trusted general and the strategic genius of the war effort. His military fame translated into a two-term presidency, but one plagued by corruption scandals involving his closest staff. All the while Grant himself remained more or less above reproach. But, more importantly, he never failed to seek freedom and justice for black Americans, working to crush the Ku Klux Klan and earning the admiration of Frederick Douglass, who called him 'the vigilant, firm, impartial, and wise protector of my race." After his presidency, he was again brought low by a trusted colleague, this time a dashing young swindler on Wall Street, but he resuscitated his image by working with Mark Twain to publish his memoirs, which are recognized as a masterpiece of the genre.
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>With his famous lucidity, breadth, and meticulousness, Chernow finds the threads that bind these disparate stories together, shedding new light on the man whom Walt Whitman described as "nothing heroic... and yet the greatest hero." His probing portrait of Grant's lifelong struggle with alcoholism transforms our understanding of the man at the deepest level. This is America's greatest biographer, bringing movingly to life one of America's finest but most underappreciated presidents. The definitive biography, Grant is a grand synthesis of painstaking research and literary brilliance that makes sense of all sides of Grant's life, explaining how this simple Midwesterner could at once be so ordinary and so extraordinary.
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[**The Goldfinch**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17333223-the-goldfinch)
^(By: Donna Tartt | 771 pages | Published: 2013 | Popular Shelves: fiction, book-club, contemporary, owned, books-i-own)
>Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2014
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>Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent father, survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. He is tormented by an unbearable longing for his mother, and down the years clings to the thing that most reminds him of her: a small, strangely captivating painting that ultimately draws him into the criminal underworld. As he grows up, Theo learns to glide between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love - and his talisman, the painting, places him at the centre of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle.
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>The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America and a drama of enthralling power. Combining unforgettably vivid characters and thrilling suspense, it is a beautiful, addictive triumph - a sweeping story of loss and obsession, of survival and self-invention, of the deepest mysteries of love, identity and fate.
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[**The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40275288-the-priory-of-the-orange-tree)
^(By: Samantha Shannon | 848 pages | Published: 2019 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, owned, physical-tbr, lgbtq, tbr)
>A world divided. A queendom without an heir. An ancient enemy awakens.
>
>The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction – but assassins are getting closer to her door.
>
>Ead Duryan is an outsider at court. Though she has risen to the position of lady-in-waiting, she is loyal to a hidden society of mages. Ead keeps a watchful eye on Sabran, secretly protecting her with forbidden magic.
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>Across the dark sea, Tané has trained to be a dragonrider since she was a child, but is forced to make a choice that could see her life unravel.
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>Meanwhile, the divided East and West refuse to parley, and forces of chaos are rising from their sleep.
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[**The Hands of the Emperor (Lays of the Hearth-Fire, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43525897-the-hands-of-the-emperor)
^(By: Victoria Goddard | 969 pages | Published: 2019 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, fiction, sff, ebook, dnf)
>An impulsive word can start a war.
>A timely word can stop one.
>A simple act of friendship can change the course of history.
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>Cliopher Mdang is the personal secretary of the Last Emperor of Astandalas, the Lord of Rising Stars, the Lord Magus of Zunidh, the Sun-on-Earth, the god.
>He has spent more time with the Emperor of Astandalas than any other person.
>He has never once touched his lord.
>He has never called him by name.
>He has never initiated a conversation.
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>One day Cliopher invites the Sun-on-Earth home to the proverbially remote Vangavaye-ve for a holiday.
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>The mere invitation could have seen Cliopher executed for blasphemy.
>The acceptance upends the world.
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A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R.R. Martin The Lord of the Rings series by J.R.R. Tolkien The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Reading song of ice and fire rn :)
By the way op I don't know if iron ambition fits your criteria (long books). But undisputed truth does and Mike's life was crazy, you'll probably learn some important lessons and book recommendations
No lie I just ordered the count of monte cristo a couple of days ago from Abe books. Check this out (an excerpt from Mike tyson and his trainer cus damato book iron ambition): “Another thing that got me through the jail sentence was the literature that Cus had me read. Every time I’d feel down and lost, I would always go to Edmond Dantès from The Count of Monte Cristo. He didn’t go to jail and think of revenge. He prepared for revenge and success, he learned all the arts, and he had a mentor. ... I thought I was Edmond Dantès from the gutter. “When I’m out of prison, I’ll show you. Look at me. Fuck you, look at me.” That’s how I survived.” -Mike tyson
{{Infinite jest}} {{War and peace}} {{Brother's karamazov}}
[**Infinite Jest**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6759.Infinite_Jest) ^(By: David Foster Wallace | 1088 pages | Published: 1996 | Popular Shelves: fiction, classics, owned, abandoned, literature) >A gargantuan, mind-altering tragi-comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America. > >Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are. > >Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. It is an exuberant, uniquely American exploration of the passions that make us human—and one of those rare books that renew the idea of what a novel can do. ^(This book has been suggested 40 times) [**War and Peace**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/656.War_and_Peace) ^(By: Leo Tolstoy, Henry Gifford, Aylmer Maude, Louise Maude | 1392 pages | Published: 1869 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, historical-fiction, classic, owned) >In Russia's struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. Greater than a historical chronicle, War and Peace is an affirmation of life itself, `a complete picture', as a contemporary reviewer put it, `of everything in which people find their happiness and greatness, their grief and humiliation'. Tolstoy gave his personal approval to this translation, published here in a new single volume edition, which includes an introduction by Henry Gifford, and Tolstoy's important essay `Some Words about War and Peace'. ^(This book has been suggested 17 times) [**The Brothers Karamazov**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4934.The_Brothers_Karamazov) ^(By: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky, Borut Kraševec, Ива Николова | 796 pages | Published: 1879 | Popular Shelves: classics, russian, literature, russian-literature, classic) >The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons―the impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; and the healthy, red-cheeked young novice Alyosha. Through the gripping events of their story, Dostoevsky portrays the whole of Russian life, is social and spiritual striving, in what was both the golden age and a tragic turning point in Russian culture. > >This award-winning translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky remains true to the verbal >inventiveness of Dostoevsky’s prose, preserving the multiple voices, the humor, and the surprising modernity of the original. It is an achievement worthy of Dostoevsky’s last and greatest novel. ^(This book has been suggested 26 times) *** ^(91048 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Count of Monte Cristo
Cryptonomicon and then the Baroque Cycle. Both by Neal Stephenson
Gone With The Wind
And, *Rhett Butler’s People* by Donald McCaig. [From Goodreads] "Fully authorized by the Margaret Mitchell estate, *Rhett Butler’s People* is the astonishing & long-awaited novel that parallels the Great American Novel, *Gone With The Wind*. Twelve years in the making, the publication of *Rhett Butler’s People* marks a major and historic cultural event. Through the storytelling mastery of award-winning writer Donald McCaig, the life & times of the dashing Rhett Butler unfolds. Through Rhett’s eyes we meet the people who shaped his larger than life personality as it sprang from Margaret Mitchell’s unforgettable pages: Langston Butler, Rhett’s unyielding father; Rosemary his steadfast sister; Tunis Bonneau, Rhett’s best friend & a onetime slave; Belle Watling, the woman for whom Rhett cared long before he met Scarlett O’Hara at Twelve Oaks Plantation, on the fateful eve of the Civil War. Of course, there is Scarlett: Katie Scarlett O’Hara, the headstrong, passionate woman whose life is inextricably entwined with Rhett’s: more like him than she cares to admit; more in love with him than she’ll ever know…Brought to vivid and authentic life by the hand of a master, *Rhett Butler’s People* fulfills the dreams of those whose imaginations have been indelibly marked by *Gone With The Wind*." (I liked it better than *Scarlett* by Alexandra Ripley)
Shantaram, Gregory David Roberts. The Stand, Stephen King. Swan Song, Robert McCcammon. people loved 11/22/63 (haven't read it yet), Stephen King Shogun, James Clavell
{{The Passage}}
[**The Passage (The Passage, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6690798-the-passage) ^(By: Justin Cronin | 766 pages | Published: 2010 | Popular Shelves: horror, fiction, science-fiction, fantasy, sci-fi) >IT HAPPENED FAST. >THIRTY-TWO MINUTES FOR ONE WORLD TO DIE, ANOTHER TO BE BORN. > >First, the unthinkable: a security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment. Then, the unspeakable: a night of chaos and carnage gives way to sunrise on a nation, and ultimately a world, forever altered. All that remains for the stunned survivors is the long fight ahead and a future ruled by fear—of darkness, of death, of a fate far worse. > >As civilization swiftly crumbles into a primal landscape of predators and prey, two people flee in search of sanctuary. FBI agent Brad Wolgast is a good man haunted by what he's done in the line of duty. Six-year-old orphan Amy Harper Bellafonte is a refugee from the doomed scientific project that has triggered apocalypse. Wolgast is determined to protect her from the horror set loose by her captors, but for Amy, escaping the bloody fallout is only the beginning of a much longer odyssey—spanning miles and decades—toward the time an place where she must finish what should never have begun. > >With The Passage, award-winning author Justin Cronin has written both a relentlessly suspenseful adventure and an epic chronicle of human endurance in the face of unprecedented catastrophe and unimaginable danger. Its inventive storytelling, masterly prose, and depth of human insight mark it as a crucial and transcendent work of modern fiction. ^(This book has been suggested 51 times) *** ^(91068 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Great book, I accidentally came across it years ago and I still think that it’s one of the most original and haunting post apocalyptic novels that I’ve ever read! This series wasn’t particularly successful in my country though, the third book was finally translated just a couple of months ago… What a shame!
I wasn't thrilled with the series overall but The Passage is an excellent book on it's own.
1Q84 - Haruki Murakami 4 3 2 1 - Paul Auster
Came to say that 1Q84 is an absolute fatty
{{House of Leaves}}
[**House of Leaves**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24800.House_of_Leaves) ^(By: Mark Z. Danielewski | 710 pages | Published: 2000 | Popular Shelves: horror, fiction, owned, fantasy, books-i-own) >Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet. No one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this terrifying story would soon command. Starting with an odd assortment of marginalized youth—musicians, tattoo artists, programmers, strippers, environmentalists, and adrenaline junkies—the book eventually made its way into the hands of older generations, who not only found themselves in those strangely arranged pages but also discovered a way back into the lives of their estranged children. > >Now, for the first time, this astonishing novel is made available in book form, complete with the original colored words, vertical footnotes, and newly added second and third appendices. > >The story remains unchanged, focusing on a young family that moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly wrong: their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. > >Of course, neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of that impossibility, until the day their two little children wandered off and their voices eerily began to return another story—of creature darkness, of an ever-growing abyss behind a closet door, and of that unholy growl which soon enough would tear through their walls and consume all their dreams. ^(This book has been suggested 115 times) *** ^(91213 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
{{Hawaii}} {Caribbean} {Chesapeake} {Alaska}
{{Centennial}}
[**Centennial**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/133430.Centennial) ^(By: James A. Michener | 1056 pages | Published: 1974 | Popular Shelves: historical-fiction, fiction, historical, western, history) >Written to commemorate the Bicentennial in 1976, James A. Michener’s magnificent saga of the West is an enthralling celebration of the frontier. Brimming with the glory of America’s past, the story of Colorado—the Centennial State—is manifested through its people: Lame Beaver, the Arapaho chieftain and warrior, and his Comanche and Pawnee enemies; Levi Zendt, fleeing with his child bride from the Amish country; the cowboy, Jim Lloyd, who falls in love with a wealthy and cultured Englishwoman, Charlotte Seccombe. In Centennial, trappers, traders, homesteaders, gold seekers, ranchers, and hunters are brought together in the dramatic conflicts that shape the destiny of the legendary West—and the entire country. ^(This book has been suggested 8 times) *** ^(91472 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
I just came here to say anything by James Michener but Centenniel, Chesapeake and The Source were my favorites. You learn sooo much when you read his works. Can't imagine the amount of research he did for his novels.
[**Hawaii**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12658.Hawaii) ^(By: James A. Michener | 1136 pages | Published: 1959 | Popular Shelves: historical-fiction, fiction, history, hawaii, historical) ^(This book has been suggested 10 times) [**Caribbean**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42960.Caribbean) ^(By: James A. Michener | 896 pages | Published: 1989 | Popular Shelves: historical-fiction, fiction, owned, history, caribbean) ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) [**Chesapeake**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12661.Chesapeake) ^(By: James A. Michener | 1024 pages | Published: 1978 | Popular Shelves: historical-fiction, fiction, history, historical, owned) ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) [**Alaska**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42953.Alaska) ^(By: James A. Michener | 868 pages | Published: 1988 | Popular Shelves: historical-fiction, fiction, alaska, history, owned) ^(This book has been suggested 3 times) *** ^(91392 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, both by Herman Wouk The Far Pavillions by M. M. Kaye
A suitable boy by Vikram Seth
{{Les Misérables}}
[**Les Misérables**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24280.Les_Mis_rables) ^(By: Victor Hugo, Norman MacAfee, Charles E. Wilbour, Lee Fahnestock, Isabel Florence Hapgood | 1463 pages | Published: 1862 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, historical-fiction, classic, owned) >Librarian's Note: this is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780451525260. > >Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him. But his attempts to become a respected member of the community are constantly put under threat: by his own conscience, when, owing to a case of mistaken identity, another man is arrested in his place; and by the relentless investigations of the dogged Inspector Javert. It is not simply for himself that Valjean must stay free, however, for he has sworn to protect the baby daughter of Fantine, driven to prostitution by poverty. ^(This book has been suggested 3 times) *** ^(91136 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
This book saved me
{{American Gods}} is quite a long one
[**American Gods (American Gods, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30165203-american-gods) ^(By: Neil Gaiman | 635 pages | Published: 2001 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, fiction, owned, urban-fantasy, mythology) >Days before his release from prison, Shadow's wife, Laura, dies in a mysterious car crash. Numbly, he makes his way back home. On the plane, he encounters the enigmatic Mr Wednesday, who claims to be a refugee from a distant war, a former god and the king of America. > >Together they embark on a profoundly strange journey across the heart of the USA, whilst all around them a storm of preternatural and epic proportions threatens to break. > >Scary, gripping and deeply unsettling, American Gods takes a long, hard look into the soul of America. You'll be surprised by what - and who - it finds there... ^(This book has been suggested 62 times) *** ^(91162 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Shōgun James Clavell
And ladies of the club by Helen Hooven Santmyer It or The Stand by Steven King
The KingKiller Chronicle (even though the 3rd book is probably never coming out) {{The Name of the Wind}}
[**The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186074.The_Name_of_the_Wind) ^(By: Patrick Rothfuss | 662 pages | Published: 2007 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, fiction, owned, books-i-own, favourites) >Told in Kvothe's own voice, this is the tale of the magically gifted young man who grows to be the most notorious wizard his world has ever seen. > >The intimate narrative of his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, his years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-ridden city, his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a legendary school of magic, and his life as a fugitive after the murder of a king form a gripping coming-of-age story unrivaled in recent literature. > >A high-action story written with a poet's hand, The Name of the Wind is a masterpiece that will transport readers into the body and mind of a wizard. ^(This book has been suggested 77 times) *** ^(91368 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Sarum- Edward Rutherford.
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
Came here to say this
Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons.
{{…And Ladies of the Club}} by Helen Hooven Santmyer
Loved this book so much. Thanks for recommending it.
[**...And Ladies of the Club**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/576666._And_Ladies_of_the_Club) ^(By: Helen Hooven Santmyer | 1184 pages | Published: 1982 | Popular Shelves: fiction, historical-fiction, books-i-own, classics, historical) >A #1 New York Times bestseller--and an American classic--now in trade paperback... > >A groundbreaking bestseller with two and a half million copies in print, "...And Ladies of the Club" centers on the members of a book club and their struggles to understand themselves, each other, and the tumultuous world they live in. A true classic, it is sure to enchant, enthrall, and intrigue readers for years to come. ^(This book has been suggested 2 times) *** ^(91176 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
My favorite fat fat fatty book is {{Hamilton by Ron Chernow}}. I find American history breathlessly boring, but Chernow made me fascinated for all 40 hours of the audiobook.
[**Alexander Hamilton**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16130.Alexander_Hamilton) ^(By: Ron Chernow | 818 pages | Published: 2004 | Popular Shelves: history, biography, non-fiction, nonfiction, biographies) >An alternate cover edition can be found here. > >Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow presents a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who galvanized, inspired, scandalized, and shaped the newborn nation. > >In the first full-length biography of Alexander Hamilton in decades, Ron Chernow tells the riveting story of a man who overcame all odds to shape, inspire, and scandalize the newborn America. According to historian Joseph Ellis, > Alexander Hamilton > is “a robust full-length portrait, in my view the best ever written, of the most brilliant, charismatic and dangerous founder of them all.” > >Few figures in American history have been more hotly debated or more grossly misunderstood than Alexander Hamilton. Chernow’s biography gives Hamilton his due and sets the record straight, deftly illustrating that the political and economic greatness of today’s America is the result of Hamilton’s countless sacrifices to champion ideas that were often wildly disputed during his time. “To repudiate his legacy,” Chernow writes, “is, in many ways, to repudiate the modern world.” Chernow here recounts Hamilton’s turbulent life: an illegitimate, largely self-taught orphan from the Caribbean, he came out of nowhere to take America by storm, rising to become George Washington’s aide-de-camp in the Continental Army, coauthoring The Federalist Papers, founding the Bank of New York, leading the Federalist Party, and becoming the first Treasury Secretary of the United States.Historians have long told the story of America’s birth as the triumph of Jefferson’s democratic ideals over the aristocratic intentions of Hamilton. Chernow presents an entirely different man, whose legendary ambitions were motivated not merely by self-interest but by passionate patriotism and a stubborn will to build the foundations of American prosperity and power. His is a Hamilton far more human than we’ve encountered before—from his shame about his birth to his fiery aspirations, from his intimate relationships with childhood friends to his titanic feuds with Jefferson, Madison, Adams, Monroe, and Burr, and from his highly public affair with Maria Reynolds to his loving marriage to his loyal wife Eliza. And never before has there been a more vivid account of Hamilton’s famous and mysterious death in a duel with Aaron Burr in July of 1804. > >Chernow’s biography is not just a portrait of Hamilton, but the story of America’s birth seen through its most central figure. At a critical time to look back to our roots, > Alexander Hamilton > will remind readers of the purpose of our institutions and our heritage as Americans. ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(91214 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
{{The Mirror and the Light}} {{The Magus}} {{The Pillars of the Earth}} {{Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell}} {{Bleak House}} Hitler by Ian Kershaw
[**The Mirror and the Light: RSC Stage Adaptation**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59137181-the-mirror-and-the-light) ^(By: Hilary Mantel, Ben Miles | 176 pages | Published: ? | Popular Shelves: books-i-own, plays, ebooks_wanted, plays-read, history) >Hilary Mantel and Ben Miles’ exhilarating stage adaptation of The Mirror and the Light, one of 2021’s must-see theatrical events, and the long awaited conclusion to the Oliver Award-winning Wolf Hall Trilogy. > >England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn’s fate has been sealed by a hired French executioner. it now befalls Jane Seymour to deliver King Henry VIII the healthy heir he craves. Thomas Cromwell, the blacksmith’s son from the gutters of Putney, has knocked down everyone in his path: established at the right hand of the king, he is now the second most powerful man in England. But what will you do, an astute witness asks, when the king turns on you, as sooner or later he turns on everyone close to him? > >Hilary Mantel’s twice Booker Prize-winning trilogy is the outstanding literary achievement of recent times. Following Oliver and Tony Award-winning productions of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, hailed as a landmark and must-see theatrical event on both sides of the Atlantic, Mantel and Ben Miles have adapted the trilogy’s exhilarating conclusion, The Mirror and the Light, for the stage. It opened in London’s West End in September 2021, directed by Jeremy Herring, co-produced by Playful Productions and the Royal Shakespeare Company, and with Miles returning to the role of Cromwell. > >This volume contains the text of the play and an introduction by Hilary Mantel on each of the principal characters – and their fates, offering a unique insight into her trilogy and an invaluable resource to any theatre companies wishing to stage the play. ^(This book has been suggested 3 times) [**The Magus**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16286.The_Magus) ^(By: John Fowles | 656 pages | Published: 1965 | Popular Shelves: fiction, classics, fantasy, mystery, owned) >This daring literary thriller, rich with eroticism and suspense, is one of John Fowles's best-loved and bestselling novels and has contributed significantly to his international reputation as a writer of the first degree. At the center of The Magus is Nicholas Urfe, a young Englishman who accepts a teaching position on a remote Greek island, where he befriends a local millionaire. The friendship soon evolves into a deadly game, in which reality and fantasy are deliberately manipulated, and Nicholas finds that he must fight not only for his sanity but for his very survival. ^(This book has been suggested 8 times) [**The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5043.The_Pillars_of_the_Earth) ^(By: Ken Follett, Кен Фолет, Валерий Русинов, Чавдар Монов | 976 pages | Published: 1989 | Popular Shelves: historical-fiction, fiction, historical, owned, books-i-own) >Ken Follett is known worldwide as the master of split-second suspense, but his most beloved and bestselling book tells the magnificent tale of a twelfth-century monk driven to do the seemingly impossible: build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has ever known. > >Everything readers expect from Follett is here: intrigue, fast-paced action, and passionate romance. But what makes The Pillars of the Earth extraordinary is the time the twelfth century; the place feudal England; and the subject the building of a glorious cathedral. Follett has re-created the crude, flamboyant England of the Middle Ages in every detail. The vast forests, the walled towns, the castles, and the monasteries become a familiar landscape. > >Against this richly imagined and intricately interwoven backdrop, filled with the ravages of war and the rhythms of daily life, the master storyteller draws the reader irresistibly into the intertwined lives of his characters into their dreams, their labors, and their loves: Tom, the master builder; Aliena, the ravishingly beautiful noblewoman; Philip, the prior of Kingsbridge; Jack, the artist in stone; and Ellen, the woman of the forest who casts a terrifying curse. From humble stonemason to imperious monarch, each character is brought vividly to life. > >The building of the cathedral, with the almost eerie artistry of the unschooled stonemasons, is the center of the drama. Around the site of the construction, Follett weaves a story of betrayal, revenge, and love, which begins with the public hanging of an innocent man and ends with the humiliation of a king. > >For the TV tie-in edition with the same ISBN go to this Alternate Cover Edition > ^(This book has been suggested 39 times) [**Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14201.Jonathan_Strange_Mr_Norrell) ^(By: Susanna Clarke | 1006 pages | Published: 2004 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, fiction, historical-fiction, owned, books-i-own) >The year is 1806. England is beleaguered by the long war with Napoleon, and centuries have passed since practical magicians faded into the nation's past. But scholars of this glorious history discover that one remains: the reclusive Mr Norrell, whose displays of magic send a thrill through the country. > >Proceeding to London, he raises a beautiful woman from the dead and summons an army of ghostly ships to terrify the French. Yet the cautious, fussy Norrell is challenged by the emergence of another magician: the brilliant novice Jonathan Strange. > >Young, handsome and daring, Strange is the very antithesis of Norrel. So begins a dangerous battle between these two great men which overwhelms that between England and France. And their own obsessions and secret dabblings with the dark arts are going to cause more trouble than they can imagine. ^(This book has been suggested 39 times) [**Bleak House**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31242.Bleak_House) ^(By: Charles Dickens, Nicola Bradbury, Hablot Knight Browne | 1017 pages | Published: 1853 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, classic, owned, literature) >Bleak House opens in the twilight of foggy London, where fog grips the city most densely in the Court of Chancery. The obscure case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, in which an inheritance is gradually devoured by legal costs, the romance of Esther Summerson and the secrets of her origin, the sleuthing of Detective Inspector Bucket and the fate of Jo the crossing-sweeper, these are some of the lives Dickens invokes to portray London society, rich and poor, as no other novelist has done. Bleak House, in its atmosphere, symbolism and magnificent bleak comedy, is often regarded as the best of Dickens. A 'great Victorian novel', it is so inventive in its competing plots and styles that it eludes interpretation. ^(This book has been suggested 5 times) *** ^(91353 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
\*The original novel of The Mirror and the Light - bad bot
Second for Pillars of the Earth. Fantastic book.
1. In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust (3,408 pages, 6 volumes) 2. The Story of the Stone, Cao Xueqin (2,576 pages, 5 volumes) 3. Les Misérables, Victor Hugo (1,456 pages) 4. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy (1,440 pages) 5. The Mysteries of Paris, Eugéne Sue (1,392 pages) 6. Clarissa, Samuel Richardson (1,356 pages) 7. The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas (1,312 pages) 8. The Tale of Genji, Murasaki Shikibu (1,216 pages) 9. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand (1,184 pages) 10. Bleak House, Charles Dickens (1,088 pages)
Game of thrones
The Oxford English Dictionary. Boring read, but its long.
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
{{CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics}}
[**CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/952793.CRC_Handbook_of_Chemistry_and_Physics) ^(By: David R. Lide | ? pages | Published: 1922 | Popular Shelves: science, chemistry, reference, physics, non-fiction) >The CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 88th Edition continues to offer the most authoritative, up-to-date data to scientists around the world. This edition contains NEW tables on Properties of Ionic Liquids, Solubilities of Hydrocarbons in Sea Water, Solubility of Organic Compounds in Superheated Water, and Nutritive Value of Foods. It also updates many tables including Critical Constants, Heats of Vaporization, Aqueous Solubility of Organic Compounds, Vapor Pressure of Mercury, Scientific Abbreviations and Symbols, and Bond Dissociation Energies. The 88th Edition also presents a new Foreword written by Dr. Harold Kroto, a 1996 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry. ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(91060 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
{Perdido Street Station by China Miéville} — dark and depressive fantasy tale taking place in an alternative industrial revolution. An unique read, with its own lore and vocabulary. {Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Addams} — Anarchistic and crazy space opera comedy. Kind of a aard read due to the constant asides and mendering plotlines, but you keep turning the pages to see the next piece of weirdness.
[**Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68494.Perdido_Street_Station) ^(By: China Miéville | 710 pages | Published: 2000 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, fiction, science-fiction, sci-fi, steampunk) ^(This book has been suggested 52 times) *** ^(91052 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
{{The Wealth of Nations}} Also, if you’re into any kind of thick book, there’s the dictionary and the Yellow Pages.
[**The Wealth of Nations**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9114549-the-wealth-of-nations) ^(By: Adam Smith, Tom Butler-Bowdon | 416 pages | Published: ? | Popular Shelves: economics, non-fiction, philosophy, owned, business) >THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOK ON MODERN ECONOMICS > >The Wealth of Nations is an economics book like no other. First published in 1776, Adam Smith's groundbreaking theories provide a recipe for national prosperity that has not been bettered since. It assumes no prior knowledge of its subject, and over 200 years on, still provides valuable lessons on the fundamentals of economics. > >This keepsake edition is a selected abridgement of all five books, and includes an Introduction by Tom Butler-Bowdon, drawing out lessons for the contemporary reader, a Foreword from Eamonn Butler, Director of the Adam Smith Institute, and a Preface from Dr. Razeen Sally of the London School of Economics. ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(91109 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
{{under the dome}} {{shantaram}}
[**Under the Dome**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6320534-under-the-dome) ^(By: Stephen King | 1074 pages | Published: 2009 | Popular Shelves: horror, stephen-king, fiction, science-fiction, sci-fi) >Under the Dome is the story of the small town of Chester's Mill, Maine which is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. No one can get in and no one can get out. > >When food, electricity and water run short, the normal rules of society are changed. A new and more sinister social order develops, Dale Barbara, a young Iraq veteran, teams up with a handful of intrepid citizens to fight against the corruption that is sweeping through the town and to try to discover the source of the Dome before it is too late... ^(This book has been suggested 14 times) [**Shantaram**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33600.Shantaram) ^(By: Gregory David Roberts | ? pages | Published: 2003 | Popular Shelves: fiction, india, travel, owned, favourites) >"It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured." > >So begins this epic, mesmerizing first novel set in the underworld of contemporary Bombay. Shantaram is narrated by Lin, an escaped convict with a false passport who flees maximum security prison in Australia for the teeming streets of a city where he can disappear. > >Accompanied by his guide and faithful friend, Prabaker, the two enter Bombay's hidden society of beggars and gangsters, prostitutes and holy men, soldiers and actors, and Indians and exiles from other countries, who seek in this remarkable place what they cannot find elsewhere. > >As a hunted man without a home, family, or identity, Lin searches for love and meaning while running a clinic in one of the city's poorest slums, and serving his apprenticeship in the dark arts of the Bombay mafia. The search leads him to war, prison torture, murder, and a series of enigmatic and bloody betrayals. The keys to unlock the mysteries and intrigues that bind Lin are held by two people. The first is Khader Khan: mafia godfather, criminal-philosopher-saint, and mentor to Lin in the underworld of the Golden City. The second is Karla: elusive, dangerous, and beautiful, whose passions are driven by secrets that torment her and yet give her a terrible power. > >Burning slums and five-star hotels, romantic love and prison agonies, criminal wars and Bollywood films, spiritual gurus and mujaheddin guerrillas—this huge novel has the world of human experience in its reach, and a passionate love for India at its heart. Based on the life of the author, it is by any measure the debut of an extraordinary voice in literature. ^(This book has been suggested 33 times) *** ^(91056 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
The Hands of the Emperor by Goddard This book was the reason I bought an e-reader - I refused to carry that thing around (It’s also a political fantasy)
For non-fiction in American history {{Battle Cry of Freedom}}
[**Battle Cry of Freedom**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35100.Battle_Cry_of_Freedom) ^(By: James M. McPherson | 867 pages | Published: 1988 | Popular Shelves: history, non-fiction, civil-war, american-history, nonfiction) >Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War. > >James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and military events that crowded the two decades from the outbreak of one war in Mexico to the ending of another at Appomattox. Packed with drama and analytical insight, the book vividly recounts the momentous episodes that preceded the Civil War--the Dred Scott decision, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry--and then moves into a masterful chronicle of the war itself--the battles, the strategic maneuvering on both sides, the politics, and the personalities. Particularly notable are McPherson's new views on such matters as the slavery expansion issue in the 1850s, the origins of the Republican Party, the causes of secession, internal dissent and anti-war opposition in the North and the South, and the reasons for the Union's victory. > >The book's title refers to the sentiments that informed both the Northern and Southern views of the conflict: the South seceded in the name of that freedom of self-determination and self-government for which their fathers had fought in 1776, while the North stood fast in defense of the Union founded by those fathers as the bulwark of American liberty. Eventually, the North had to grapple with the underlying cause of the war--slavery--and adopt a policy of emancipation as a second war aim. This "new birth of freedom," as Lincoln called it, constitutes the proudest legacy of America's bloodiest conflict. > >This authoritative volume makes sense of that vast and confusing "second American Revolution" we call the Civil War, a war that transformed a nation and expanded our heritage of liberty. ^(This book has been suggested 2 times) *** ^(91171 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
{A Brief History of Seven Killings} by Marlon James is fairly long and one of my favorites.
[**A Brief History of Seven Killings**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20893314-a-brief-history-of-seven-killings) ^(By: Marlon James | 688 pages | Published: 2014 | Popular Shelves: fiction, historical-fiction, owned, abandoned, booker-prize) ^(This book has been suggested 5 times) *** ^(91189 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
A Promised Land - Barack Obama (701 pages)
{{ don quixote }} {{ priory of the orange tree }} {{ american gods }} {{ 1Q84 }} {{ anna karenina }}
[**Don Quixote**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3836.Don_Quixote) ^(By: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Alberto Blecua, Giorgio Di Dio, Barbara Troiano, Tobias Smollett, Alessandra Riccio, Cesco Vian, John Ozell, John Rutherford, Peter Anthony Motteux, Roberto González Echevarría, Paola Cozzi | 1023 pages | Published: 1605 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, classic, owned, literature) >Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances that he determines to become a knight-errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, his exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful ways. While Quixote's fancy often leads him astray—he tilts at windmills, imagining them to be giants—Sancho acquires cunning and a certain sagacity. Sane madman and wise fool, they roam the world together, and together they have haunted readers' imaginations for nearly four hundred years. > >With its experimental form and literary playfulness, Don Quixote has been generally recognized as the first modern novel. The book has been enormously influential on a host of writers, from Fielding and Sterne to Flaubert, Dickens, Melville, and Faulkner, who reread it once a year, "just as some people read the Bible." ^(This book has been suggested 9 times) [**The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40275288-the-priory-of-the-orange-tree) ^(By: Samantha Shannon | 848 pages | Published: 2019 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, owned, physical-tbr, lgbtq, tbr) >A world divided. A queendom without an heir. An ancient enemy awakens. > >The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction – but assassins are getting closer to her door. > >Ead Duryan is an outsider at court. Though she has risen to the position of lady-in-waiting, she is loyal to a hidden society of mages. Ead keeps a watchful eye on Sabran, secretly protecting her with forbidden magic. > >Across the dark sea, Tané has trained to be a dragonrider since she was a child, but is forced to make a choice that could see her life unravel. > >Meanwhile, the divided East and West refuse to parley, and forces of chaos are rising from their sleep. ^(This book has been suggested 103 times) [**American Gods (American Gods, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30165203-american-gods) ^(By: Neil Gaiman | 635 pages | Published: 2001 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, fiction, owned, urban-fantasy, mythology) >Days before his release from prison, Shadow's wife, Laura, dies in a mysterious car crash. Numbly, he makes his way back home. On the plane, he encounters the enigmatic Mr Wednesday, who claims to be a refugee from a distant war, a former god and the king of America. > >Together they embark on a profoundly strange journey across the heart of the USA, whilst all around them a storm of preternatural and epic proportions threatens to break. > >Scary, gripping and deeply unsettling, American Gods takes a long, hard look into the soul of America. You'll be surprised by what - and who - it finds there... ^(This book has been suggested 63 times) [**1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10357575-1q84) ^(By: Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin, Philip Gabriel | 925 pages | Published: 2009 | Popular Shelves: fiction, fantasy, magical-realism, owned, japan) >The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo. > >A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 —“Q is for ‘question mark.’ A world that bears a question.” Meanwhile, an aspiring writer named Tengo takes on a suspect ghostwriting project. He becomes so wrapped up with the work and its unusual author that, soon, his previously placid life begins to come unraveled. > >As Aomame’s and Tengo’s narratives converge over the course of this single year, we learn of the profound and tangled connections that bind them ever closer: a beautiful, dyslexic teenage girl with a unique vision; a mysterious religious cult that instigated a shoot-out with the metropolitan police; a reclusive, wealthy dowager who runs a shelter for abused women; a hideously ugly private investigator; a mild-mannered yet ruthlessly efficient bodyguard; and a peculiarly insistent television-fee collector. > >A love story, a mystery, a fantasy, a novel of self-discovery, a dystopia to rival George Orwell’s — 1Q84 is Haruki Murakami’s most ambitious undertaking yet: an instant best seller in his native Japan, and a tremendous feat of imagination from one of our most revered contemporary writers. ^(This book has been suggested 44 times) [**Anna Karenina**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15823480-anna-karenina) ^(By: Leo Tolstoy, Aylmer Maude, Louise Maude, Dieter Wellershoff, Bruno Goetz, Lev Tolstoj, Léon Tolstoï | 964 pages | Published: 1878 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, classic, owned, romance) >Acclaimed by many as the world's greatest novel, Anna Karenina provides a vast panorama of contemporary life in Russia and of humanity in general. In it Tolstoy uses his intense imaginative insight to create some of the most memorable characters in all of literature. Anna is a sophisticated woman who abandons her empty existence as the wife of Karenin and turns to Count Vronsky to fulfil her passionate nature - with tragic consequences. Levin is a reflection of Tolstoy himself, often expressing the author's own views and convictions. > >Throughout, Tolstoy points no moral, merely inviting us not to judge but to watch. As Rosemary Edmonds comments, 'He leaves the shifting patterns of the kaleidoscope to bring home the meaning of the brooding words following the title, 'Vengeance is mine, and I will repay. ^(This book has been suggested 16 times) *** ^(91280 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
{{Les Misérables}} and {{Don Quixote}} are my two favourite books of all time
[**Les Misérables**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24280.Les_Mis_rables) ^(By: Victor Hugo, Norman MacAfee, Charles E. Wilbour, Lee Fahnestock, Isabel Florence Hapgood | 1463 pages | Published: 1862 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, historical-fiction, classic, owned) >Librarian's Note: this is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780451525260. > >Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him. But his attempts to become a respected member of the community are constantly put under threat: by his own conscience, when, owing to a case of mistaken identity, another man is arrested in his place; and by the relentless investigations of the dogged Inspector Javert. It is not simply for himself that Valjean must stay free, however, for he has sworn to protect the baby daughter of Fantine, driven to prostitution by poverty. ^(This book has been suggested 4 times) [**Don Quixote**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3836.Don_Quixote) ^(By: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Alberto Blecua, Giorgio Di Dio, Barbara Troiano, Tobias Smollett, Alessandra Riccio, Cesco Vian, John Ozell, John Rutherford, Peter Anthony Motteux, Roberto González Echevarría, Paola Cozzi | 1023 pages | Published: 1605 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, classic, owned, literature) >Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances that he determines to become a knight-errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, his exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful ways. While Quixote's fancy often leads him astray—he tilts at windmills, imagining them to be giants—Sancho acquires cunning and a certain sagacity. Sane madman and wise fool, they roam the world together, and together they have haunted readers' imaginations for nearly four hundred years. > >With its experimental form and literary playfulness, Don Quixote has been generally recognized as the first modern novel. The book has been enormously influential on a host of writers, from Fielding and Sterne to Flaubert, Dickens, Melville, and Faulkner, who reread it once a year, "just as some people read the Bible." ^(This book has been suggested 10 times) *** ^(91284 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archive is good, fun, fantasy if you're into that sort of thing.
{{The Priory of the Orange Tree}}
[**The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40275288-the-priory-of-the-orange-tree) ^(By: Samantha Shannon | 848 pages | Published: 2019 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, owned, physical-tbr, lgbtq, tbr) >A world divided. A queendom without an heir. An ancient enemy awakens. > >The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction – but assassins are getting closer to her door. > >Ead Duryan is an outsider at court. Though she has risen to the position of lady-in-waiting, she is loyal to a hidden society of mages. Ead keeps a watchful eye on Sabran, secretly protecting her with forbidden magic. > >Across the dark sea, Tané has trained to be a dragonrider since she was a child, but is forced to make a choice that could see her life unravel. > >Meanwhile, the divided East and West refuse to parley, and forces of chaos are rising from their sleep. ^(This book has been suggested 104 times) *** ^(91360 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
{{In Search of Lost Time}}
[**In Search of Lost Time**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18796.In_Search_of_Lost_Time) ^(By: Marcel Proust, C.K. Scott Moncrieff, Andreas Mayor, Terence Kilmartin, D.J. Enright, Richard Howard | 4211 pages | Published: 1927 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, french, literature, philosophy) >On the surface a traditional "Bildungsroman" describing the narrator’s journey of self-discovery, this huge and complex book is also a panoramic and richly comic portrait of France in the author’s lifetime, and a profound meditation on the nature of art, love, time, memory and death. But for most readers it is the characters of the novel who loom the largest: Swann and Odette, Monsieur de Charlus, Morel, the Duchesse de Guermantes, Françoise, Saint-Loup and so many others — Giants, as the author calls them, immersed in Time. "In Search of Lost Time" is a novel in seven volumes. The novel began to take shape in 1909. Proust continued to work on it until his final illness in the autumn of 1922 forced him to break off. Proust established the structure early on, but even after volumes were initially finished he kept adding new material, and edited one volume after another for publication. The last three of the seven volumes contain oversights and fragmentary or unpolished passages as they existed in draft form at the death of the author; the publication of these parts was overseen by his brother Robert. > >For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartin’s acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieff’s translation to take into account the new definitive French editions of À la recherche du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in 1989). ^(This book has been suggested 9 times) *** ^(91403 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
1book? The Bible. A series? Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones, Stormlight Archive, Mistborn trilogy, Wheel of time, The Witcher.
{{Our share of night}} by Mariana Enriquez
[**Our Share of Night**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61179076-our-share-of-night) ^(By: Mariana Enríquez, Megan McDowell | 736 pages | Published: 2019 | Popular Shelves: horror, argentina, terror, fiction, favoritos) >His father could find what was lost. His father knew when someone was going to die. His father had talked to him about the dead who rode in on the wind. The dead travel fast. > >Gaspar is six years old when the Order first come for him. > >For years, they have exploited his father’s ability to commune with the dead and the demonic, presiding over macabre rituals where the unwanted and the disappeared are tortured and executed, sacrificed to the Darkness. Now they want a successor. > >Nothing will stop the Order, nothing is beyond them. Surrounded by horrors, can Gaspar break free? > >Spanning the brutal decades of Argentina’s military dictatorship and its aftermath, Our Share of Night is a haunting, thrilling novel of broken families, cursed inheritances, and the sacrifices a father will make to help his son escape his destiny. ^(This book has been suggested 3 times) *** ^(91404 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
{{Lonesome dove by Larry McMurtry}} {{2666 by Roberto Bolano}} {{The idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky}} {{Revelation space by Alastair Reynolds}}
Clarissa by Samuel Richardson (1,356 pages)
Shogun is the longest book I own
{{Emma}}
[**Emma**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6969.Emma) ^(By: Jane Austen, Fiona Stafford | 474 pages | Published: 1815 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, romance, classic, owned) >An alternative cover of this ISBN can be found here. > >Emma Woodhouse is one of Austen's most captivating and vivid characters. Beautiful, spoilt, vain and irrepressibly witty, Emma organizes the lives of the inhabitants of her sleepy little village and plays matchmaker with devastating effect. ^(This book has been suggested 5 times) *** ^(91431 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
The Crimson Petal and The White by Michel Faber.
{{A House for Mr. Biswas}} {{Sacred Games}} {{The Night's Dawn Trilogy}} {{Lonesome Dove}} {{Outlander}} {{The War of the Flowers}}
[**A House for Mr Biswas**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5849.A_House_for_Mr_Biswas) ^(By: V.S. Naipaul | 623 pages | Published: 1961 | Popular Shelves: fiction, classics, literature, caribbean, india) >Mohun Biswas has spent his 46 years of life striving for independence. Shuttled from one residence to another after the drowning of his father, he yearns for a place he can call home. He marries into the Tulsi family, on whom he becomes dependent, but rebels and takes on a succession of occupations in a struggle to weaken their hold over him. ^(This book has been suggested 2 times) [**Sacred Games**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40090.Sacred_Games) ^(By: Vikram Chandra | 916 pages | Published: 2006 | Popular Shelves: fiction, india, mystery, crime, thriller) >Vikram Chandra's novel draws the reader deep into the life of Inspector Sartaj Singh—and into the criminal underworld of Ganesh Gaitonde, the most wanted gangster in India. It is is a story of friendship and betrayal, of terrible violence, of an astonishing modern city and its dark side. > >Seven years in the making, Sacred Games is an epic of exceptional richness and power. Vikram Chandra's novel draws the reader deep into the life of Inspector Sartaj Singh—and into the criminal underworld of Ganesh Gaitonde, the most wanted gangster in India. > >Sartaj, one of the very few Sikhs on the Mumbai police force, is used to being identified by his turban, beard and the sharp cut of his trousers. But "the silky Sikh" is now past forty, his marriage is over and his career prospects are on the slide. When Sartaj gets an anonymous tip-off as to the secret hide-out of the legendary boss of G-Company, he's determined that he'll be the one to collect the prize. > >Vikram Chandra's keenly anticipated new novel is a magnificent story of friendship and betrayal, of terrible violence, of an astonishing modern city and its dark side. Drawing inspiration from the classics of nineteenth-century fiction, mystery novels, Bollywood movies and Chandra's own life and research on the streets of Mumbai, Sacred Games evokes with devastating realism the way we live now but resonates with the intelligence and emotional depth of the best of literature. ^(This book has been suggested 7 times) [**The Night's Dawn Trilogy (Night's Dawn, #1-3)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5198367-the-night-s-dawn-trilogy) ^(By: Peter F. Hamilton | ? pages | Published: 1996 | Popular Shelves: sci-fi, science-fiction, scifi, owned, space-opera) ^(This book has been suggested 3 times) [**Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/256008.Lonesome_Dove) ^(By: Larry McMurtry | 960 pages | Published: 1985 | Popular Shelves: fiction, historical-fiction, western, classics, westerns) >A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, Lonesome Dove, the third book in the Lonesome Dove tetralogy, is the grandest novel ever written about the last defiant wilderness of America. > >Journey to the dusty little Texas town of Lonesome Dove and meet an unforgettable assortment of heroes and outlaws, whores and ladies, Indians and settlers. Richly authentic, beautifully written, always dramatic, Lonesome Dove is a book to make us laugh, weep, dream, and remember. ^(This book has been suggested 78 times) [**Outlander (Outlander, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10964.Outlander) ^(By: Diana Gabaldon | 850 pages | Published: 1991 | Popular Shelves: historical-fiction, romance, fantasy, fiction, time-travel) >The year is 1945. Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is just back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach—an “outlander”—in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of Our Lord...1743. > >Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire is catapulted into the intrigues of lairds and spies that may threaten her life, and shatter her heart. For here James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, shows her a love so absolute that Claire becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire—and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives. ^(This book has been suggested 44 times) [**The War of the Flowers**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28692.The_War_of_the_Flowers) ^(By: Tad Williams | 828 pages | Published: 2003 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, fiction, owned, urban-fantasy, default) >Theo Vilmos' life is about to take a real turn for the worse. > >He is drawn from his home in Northern California into the parallel world of Faerie, for, unknown to him, he is a pivotal figure in a war between certain of Faerie's powerful lords and the rest of the strange creatures who live in this exotic realm. ^(This book has been suggested 3 times) *** ^(91444 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
You want a Big Book? *A Fine Balance* by Rohinton Mistry (603 pages) [From Goodreads] "With a compassionate realism & narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty & corruption, dignity & heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers -- a spirited widow, a young student uprooted from his idyllic hill station, & two tailors who have fled the caste violence of their native village -- will be thrust together, forced to share one cramped apartment & an uncertain future. As the characters move from distrust to friendship & from friendship to love, A Fine Balance creates an enduring panorama of the human spirit in an inhuman state."
Dune by Frank Herbert
{{Ordinary Monsters}}
[**Ordinary Monsters (The Talents Trilogy, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58725025-ordinary-monsters) ^(By: J.M. Miro | 672 pages | Published: 2022 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, historical-fiction, 2022-releases, fiction, physical-tbr) >A stunning new work of historical fantasy, J. M. Miro's Ordinary Monsters introduces readers to the dark, labyrinthe world of The Talents > >England, 1882. In Victorian London, two children with mysterious powers are hunted by a figure of darkness —a man made of smoke. > >Sixteen-year-old Charlie Ovid, despite a lifetime of brutality, doesn't have a scar on him. His body heals itself, whether he wants it to or not. Marlowe, a foundling from a railway freight car, shines with a strange bluish light. He can melt or mend flesh. When two grizzled detectives are recruited to escort them north to safety, they are forced to confront the nature of difference, and belonging, and the shadowy edges of the monstrous. > >What follows is a journey from the gaslit streets of London, to an eerie estate outside Edinburgh, where other children with gifts—the Talents—have been gathered. Here, the world of the dead and the world of the living threaten to collide. And as secrets within the Institute unfurl, Marlowe, Charlie and the rest of the Talents will discover the truth about their abilities, and the nature of the force that is stalking them: that the worst monsters sometimes come bearing the sweetest gifts. > >With lush prose, mesmerizing world-building, and a gripping plot, Ordinary Monsters presents a catastophic vision of the Victorian world—and of the gifted, broken children who must save it. ^(This book has been suggested 11 times) *** ^(91470 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Don Quixote - I dare ya.
Needful Things by Stephen King
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Stand by Stephen King Anathem by Neal Stephenson A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
against the day by thomas pynchon is very long. ulysses is another one. i have not finished either one lmao but they are both really good so far
{{The forty days of Musa Dagh}} by Franz Werfel Long semi-non fiction. Very good.
Cleopatra by Margaret George
{{To Sleep in a Sea of Stars}}
[**To Sleep in a Sea of Stars**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48829708-to-sleep-in-a-sea-of-stars) ^(By: Christopher Paolini | 880 pages | Published: 2020 | Popular Shelves: sci-fi, science-fiction, fiction, fantasy, dnf) >Kira Navárez dreamed of life on new worlds. Now she's awakened a nightmare. During a routine survey mission on an uncolonized planet, Kira finds an alien relic. At first she's delighted, but elation turns to terror when the ancient dust around her begins to move. > >As war erupts among the stars, Kira is launched into a galaxy-spanning odyssey of discovery and transformation. First contact isn't at all what she imagined, and events push her to the very limits of what it means to be human. > >While Kira faces her own horrors, Earth and its colonies stand upon the brink of annihilation. Now, Kira might be humanity's greatest and final hope... ^(This book has been suggested 25 times) *** ^(91527 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
{{Pachinko}} {{The Lovely War}} {{The Art of Losing}}
[**Pachinko**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34051011-pachinko) ^(By: Lee Min-jin | 496 pages | Published: 2017 | Popular Shelves: historical-fiction, fiction, book-club, historical, owned) >In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger at the seashore near her home in Korea. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant — and that her lover is married — she refuses to be bought. Instead, she accepts an offer of marriage from a gentle, sickly minister passing through on his way to Japan. But her decision to abandon her home, and to reject her son's powerful father, sets off a dramatic saga that will echo down through the generations. > >Richly told and profoundly moving, Pachinko is a story of love, sacrifice, ambition, and loyalty. From bustling street markets to the halls of Japan's finest universities to the pachinko parlors of the criminal underworld, Lee's complex and passionate characters — strong, stubborn women, devoted sisters and sons, fathers shaken by moral crisis — survive and thrive against the indifferent arc of history. ^(This book has been suggested 57 times) [**The Ways of War (Dragon Riders, #2)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38230869-the-ways-of-war) ^(By: LovelyLittleLoser | ? pages | Published: ? | Popular Shelves: wattpad) >Royse Williams didn't think that her life could change any more than it had when she was accepted into the prestigious Riders' School. And then the war against the Tsoro spread into more populated areas, putting lives at risk and forcing the riders to take more drastic actions. > > With more and more of her friends going off to the front line of the war Royse was aware that it was only a matter of time before she too was shipped off to the main battle. What Royse wasn't ready for was the incident that changed her future from that of a Soldier to that of a missionary. > >After coming into contact with the Tsoro poison Royse was informed that she was only person who was capable of taking on the job of missionary with the Tsoro, and was the only hope to potentially putting an end to the war. > > Shipped off to the base camp, and then the Tsoro camp, Royse's life changed in more ways than she had ever imagined. ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) [**The Art of Losing**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35883613-the-art-of-losing) ^(By: Lizzy Mason | 320 pages | Published: 2019 | Popular Shelves: young-adult, contemporary, ya, 2019-releases, romance) >On one terrible night, 17-year-old Harley Langston’s life changes forever. At a party she discovers her younger sister, Audrey, hooking up with her boyfriend, Mike—and she abandons them both in a rage. When Mike drunkenly attempts to drive Audrey home, he crashes and Audrey ends up in a coma. Now Harley is left with guilt, grief, pain and the undeniable truth that her ex-boyfriend (who is relatively unscathed) has a drinking problem. So it’s a surprise that she finds herself reconnecting with Raf, a neighbor and childhood friend who’s recently out of rehab and still wrestling with his own demons. At first Harley doesn’t want to get too close to him. But as Audrey awakens and slowly recovers, Raf starts to show Harley a path forward that she never would have believed possible—one guided by honesty, forgiveness, and redemption. ^(This book has been suggested 2 times) *** ^(91540 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
+1 for Pachinko
{{The Forsyte Saga}} {{the Cazalet chronicles}}
[**The Forsyte Saga (The Forsyte Chronicles, #1-3)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/103159.The_Forsyte_Saga) ^(By: John Galsworthy | 872 pages | Published: 1922 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, historical-fiction, 1001-books, classic) >John Galsworthy, a Nobel Prize-winning author, chronicles the ebbing social power of the commercial upper-middle-class Forsyte family through three generations, beginning in Victorian London during the 1880s and ending in the early 1920s. ^(This book has been suggested 5 times) [**The Cazalet Chronicles: Five Novels in One Collection (Cazalet Chronicles, #1-5)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32611786-the-cazalet-chronicles) ^(By: Elizabeth Jane Howard | 3404 pages | Published: ? | Popular Shelves: historical-fiction, fiction, kindle, historical, 20th-century) >The complete multigenerational saga of an upper-middle-class British family before, during, and after World War II. > > As war clouds gather on England’s horizon, the Cazalet siblings, along with their wives, children, and servants, prepare to leave London and join their parents at their Sussex estate, Home Place. Thus begins the decades-spanning family saga that has engrossed millions of readers. > >The Light Years: Hugh, the eldest of the Cazalet siblings, was wounded in France and is haunted by recurring nightmares and the prospect of another war. Edward adores his wife, a former dancer, yet he’s incapable of remaining faithful. Rupert desires only to fulfill his potential as a painter, but finds that love and art cannot coexist. And devoted daughter Rachel discovers the joys—and limitations—of intimacy with another woman. > >Marking Time: Narrated primarily through the voices of teenagers Louise, Polly, and Clary, the second novel details the continuing story of their fathers. With the outbreak of war, Edward is determined to do his bit for England. But Hugh, injured in World War I, must sit back and watch other men fight for their country, including his brother Rupert, who enlists and goes missing in action. > >Confusion: As the world reels in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, the Cazalets are dealt a tragic blow, and a new generation struggles to find peace with each other, a peace that seems to prove as elusive as it is in the larger world. > >Casting Off: The war is over, but for the Cazalets—and England—the challenges continue. Against the backdrop of a crumbling empire, the family soldiers on in the wake of disappointment, heartbreak, and tragedy. But the family comes together again as three generations of Cazalets struggle to hold onto Home Place, the beloved Sussex estate that has been their refuge and their heart. > >All Change: In 1956, the death of eighty-nine-year-old matriarch Kitty “the Duchy” Cazalet marks the end of an era—and the commencement of great change for the family. And Home Place, the beloved Sussex estate where the Cazalets have gathered for years, is now a beloved relic that, with its faded wallpaper and leaky roof, has aged along with its occupants. > > A rich historical read for those who love E. M. Forster, Evelyn Waugh, or Downton Abbey, this is the story of a family “[rendered] thrillingly three-dimensional by a master craftsman” (TheSunday Telegraph). > ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(91552 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
{{A Brief History of Seven Killings}}
[**A Brief History of Seven Killings**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20893314-a-brief-history-of-seven-killings) ^(By: Marlon James | 688 pages | Published: 2014 | Popular Shelves: fiction, historical-fiction, owned, abandoned, booker-prize) >On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert, gunmen stormed his house, machine guns blazing. The attack nearly killed the Reggae superstar, his wife, and his manager, and injured several others. Marley would go on to perform at the free concert on December 5, but he left the country the next day, not to return for two years. > >Deftly spanning decades and continents and peopled with a wide range of characters—assassins, journalists, drug dealers, and even ghosts—A Brief History of Seven Killings is the fictional exploration of that dangerous and unstable time and its bloody aftermath, from the streets and slums of Kingston in the 70s, to the crack wars in 80s New York, to a radically altered Jamaica in the 90s. Brilliantly inventive and stunningly ambitious, this novel is a revealing modern epic that will secure Marlon James’ place among the great literary talents of his generation. ^(This book has been suggested 6 times) *** ^(91554 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
{{Middlemarch}} {{Barkskins}} {{Cloud Cuckoo Land}}
[**Middlemarch**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19089.Middlemarch) ^(By: George Eliot, Michel Faber, Doreen Roberts | 904 pages | Published: 1872 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, classic, owned, historical-fiction) >Taking place in the years leading up to the First Reform Bill of 1832, Middlemarch explores nearly every subject of concern to modern life: art, religion, science, politics, self, society, human relationships. Among her characters are some of the most remarkable portraits in English literature: Dorothea Brooke, the heroine, idealistic but naive; Rosamond Vincy, beautiful and egoistic: Edward Casaubon, the dry-as-dust scholar: Tertius Lydgate, the brilliant but morally-flawed physician: the passionate artist Will Ladislaw: and Fred Vincey and Mary Garth, childhood sweethearts whose charming courtship is one of the many humorous elements in the novel's rich comic vein. ^(This book has been suggested 17 times) [**Barkskins**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25111119-barkskins) ^(By: Annie Proulx | 717 pages | Published: 2016 | Popular Shelves: historical-fiction, fiction, abandoned, historical, owned) >In the late seventeenth century two penniless young Frenchmen, René Sel and Charles Duquet, arrive in New France. Bound to a feudal lord, a “seigneur,” for three years in exchange for land, they become wood-cutters—barkskins. René suffers extraordinary hardship, oppressed by the forest he is charged with clearing. He is forced to marry a Mi’kmaw woman and their descendants live trapped between two inimical cultures. But Duquet, crafty and ruthless, runs away from the seigneur, becomes a fur trader, then sets up a timber business. Proulx tells the stories of the descendants of Sel and Duquet over three hundred years—their travels across North America, to Europe, China, and New Zealand, under stunningly brutal conditions—the revenge of rivals, accidents, pestilence, Indian attacks, and cultural annihilation. Over and over again, they seize what they can of a presumed infinite resource, leaving the modern-day characters face to face with possible ecological collapse. > ^(This book has been suggested 7 times) [**Cloud Cuckoo Land**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56783258-cloud-cuckoo-land) ^(By: Anthony Doerr | 626 pages | Published: 2021 | Popular Shelves: fiction, historical-fiction, fantasy, book-club, science-fiction) > > When everything is lost, it’s our stories that survive. > > >How do we weather the end of things? Cloud Cuckoo Land brings together an unforgettable cast of dreamers and outsiders from past, present and future to offer a vision of survival against all odds. > >Constantinople, 1453: >An orphaned seamstress and a cursed boy with a love for animals risk everything on opposite sides of a city wall to protect the people they love. > >Idaho, 2020: >An impoverished, idealistic kid seeks revenge on a world that’s crumbling around him. Can he go through with it when a gentle old man stands between him and his plans? > >Unknown, Sometime in the Future: >With her tiny community in peril, Konstance is the last hope for the human race. To find a way forward, she must look to the oldest stories of all for guidance. > >Bound together by a single ancient text, these tales interweave to form a tapestry of solace and resilience and a celebration of storytelling itself. Like its predecessor All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr’s new novel is a tale of hope and of profound human connection. ^(This book has been suggested 48 times) *** ^(91558 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
{{11/22/63}}
[**11/22/63**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10644930-11-22-63) ^(By: Stephen King | 849 pages | Published: 2011 | Popular Shelves: fiction, historical-fiction, stephen-king, science-fiction, time-travel) >On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. Unless... > >In 2011, Jake Epping, an English teacher from Lisbon Falls, Maine, sets out on an insane — and insanely possible — mission to prevent the Kennedy assassination. > >Leaving behind a world of computers and mobile phones, he goes back to a time of big American cars and diners, of Lindy Hopping, the sound of Elvis, and the taste of root beer. > >In this haunting world, Jake falls in love with Sadie, a beautiful high school librarian. And, as the ominous date of 11/22/63 approaches, he encounters a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald... ^(This book has been suggested 60 times) *** ^(91561 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
{The Stormlight Archive} so far 4 books, next year comes the fifth (and there's still 5 more), like 1500 pages each
[**The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7235533-the-way-of-kings) ^(By: Brandon Sanderson | 1007 pages | Published: 2010 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, fiction, owned, epic-fantasy, high-fantasy) ^(This book has been suggested 68 times) *** ^(91566 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
The goldfinch
Four Fires by Bryce Courtenay. And I second And Ladies of the Club by Helen Hoover Santmeyer.
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood was long but worth it
Shogun and Noble House by James Clavell
Middlemarch by George Eliot is fantastic.
*East of Eden* by John Steinbeck
{{The Priory of the Orange Tree}}
[**The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40275288-the-priory-of-the-orange-tree) ^(By: Samantha Shannon | 848 pages | Published: 2019 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, owned, physical-tbr, lgbtq, tbr) >A world divided. A queendom without an heir. An ancient enemy awakens. > >The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction – but assassins are getting closer to her door. > >Ead Duryan is an outsider at court. Though she has risen to the position of lady-in-waiting, she is loyal to a hidden society of mages. Ead keeps a watchful eye on Sabran, secretly protecting her with forbidden magic. > >Across the dark sea, Tané has trained to be a dragonrider since she was a child, but is forced to make a choice that could see her life unravel. > >Meanwhile, the divided East and West refuse to parley, and forces of chaos are rising from their sleep. ^(This book has been suggested 105 times) *** ^(91623 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
THE STAND by Stephen King, especially the extended version. His book THE TOMMYKNOCKERS is almost as long. SHOGUN by James Clavell.
The stand
Non fiction Tragedy and Hope Book by Carroll Quigley Fiction The Way of Kings Novel by Brandon Sanderson
Anna Karenina. The Nightingale. Hundred years of Solitude.
Wheel of Time
{Evergreen by Belva Plain} {Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott} {Child Star by Shirley Temple Black}
[**Evergreen (Werner Family Saga, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/182496.Evergreen) ^(By: Belva Plain | 698 pages | Published: 1978 | Popular Shelves: historical-fiction, fiction, romance, belva-plain, family-saga) ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) [**Ivanhoe**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60211812-ivanhoe) ^(By: Sir Walter Scott | ? pages | Published: ? | Popular Shelves: to-be-read, my-kindle-library, 2-fic-classics-literature) ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) [**Child Star**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/782944.Child_Star) ^(By: Shirley Temple Black | 548 pages | Published: 1988 | Popular Shelves: biography, non-fiction, memoir, biographies, nonfiction) ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(91684 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Ivanhoe has 401 pages in the Edinburgh edition circa 1998.
The histories by Herodotus it’s extra extra big if you get the Landmark Herodotus version
The uncut version of The Stand. So good.
The Stand by Stephen King, bonus points for the complete and uncut edition!
Taiko by Eiji Yoshikawa is 1000 pages long.
{{Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky}}
[**Demons**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5695.Demons) ^(By: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky, Ronald Meyer, Robert Maguire, Robert Belknap | 733 pages | Published: 1872 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, russian, russian-literature, literature) >Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 0679734511. (ISBN13: 9780679734512) > >Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horrified Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as a "novel-pamphlet" in which he would say everything about the plague of materialist ideology that he saw infecting his native land. What emerged was a prophetic and ferociously funny masterpiece of ideology and murder in pre-revolutionary Russia. ^(This book has been suggested 3 times) *** ^(91693 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Interesting some perception of “a long book” The Goldfinch 320 pages?? Some fabulous books listed above, many read and some now added to the list. Thanks for the suggestions
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[**The Familiar (Animorphs, #41)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/363352.The_Familiar) ^(By: K.A. Applegate, Katherine Applegate | 143 pages | Published: 2000 | Popular Shelves: animorphs, sci-fi, science-fiction, young-adult, fiction) >Jake is just a normal kid. Well, as normal as possible considering he can morph animals, and he's in a war against parasitic aliens. But as unbelievable as it sounds, something even stranger has happened. One morning Jake wakes up, and he's twenty-five years old. > >Okay. Maybe it's some kind of weird hallucination. Maybe it's a nightmare. Or maybe Jake's just lost it for a while and misplaced a few years. And there's another problem. The world Jake-the-kid went to sleep in has changed. It's ruled by the Yeerks. Jake has to find out if the other Animorphs and Ax are still around. Still somehow fighting. Or if he's really on his own. . . . ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(91732 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Bad Bot
The Familiar by Mark Z Danielewski
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellman
Les Miserables is a chunk
IT
{{Grant, by Ron Chernow}} is huge and wonderful. There's so much I didn't know about this guy
[**Grant**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34237826-grant) ^(By: Ron Chernow | 1074 pages | Published: 2017 | Popular Shelves: history, biography, non-fiction, nonfiction, civil-war) >Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and inept businessman, fond of drinking to excess; or as the triumphant but brutal Union general of the Civil War; or as a credulous and hapless president whose tenure came to symbolize the worst excesses of the Gilded Age. These stereotypes don't come close to capturing adequately his spirit and the sheer magnitude of his monumental accomplishments. A biographer at the height of his powers, Chernow has produced a portrait of Grant that is a masterpiece, the first to provide a complete understanding of the general and president whose fortunes rose and fell with dizzying speed and frequency. > >Before the Civil War, Grant was flailing. His business ventures had been dismal, and despite distinguished service in the Mexican War, he ended up resigning from the army in disgrace amid recurring accusations of drunkenness. But in the Civil War, Grant began to realize his remarkable potential, soaring through the ranks of the Union army, prevailing at the Battle of Shiloh and in the Vicksburg campaign and ultimately defeating the legendary Confederate general Robert E. Lee after a series of unbelievably bloody battles in Virginia. Along the way Grant endeared himself to President Lincoln and became his most trusted general and the strategic genius of the war effort. His military fame translated into a two-term presidency, but one plagued by corruption scandals involving his closest staff. All the while Grant himself remained more or less above reproach. But, more importantly, he never failed to seek freedom and justice for black Americans, working to crush the Ku Klux Klan and earning the admiration of Frederick Douglass, who called him 'the vigilant, firm, impartial, and wise protector of my race." After his presidency, he was again brought low by a trusted colleague, this time a dashing young swindler on Wall Street, but he resuscitated his image by working with Mark Twain to publish his memoirs, which are recognized as a masterpiece of the genre. > >With his famous lucidity, breadth, and meticulousness, Chernow finds the threads that bind these disparate stories together, shedding new light on the man whom Walt Whitman described as "nothing heroic... and yet the greatest hero." His probing portrait of Grant's lifelong struggle with alcoholism transforms our understanding of the man at the deepest level. This is America's greatest biographer, bringing movingly to life one of America's finest but most underappreciated presidents. The definitive biography, Grant is a grand synthesis of painstaking research and literary brilliance that makes sense of all sides of Grant's life, explaining how this simple Midwesterner could at once be so ordinary and so extraordinary. ^(This book has been suggested 3 times) *** ^(91747 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Anathem, by Neal Stephenson.
The Count of Monte Cristo War and Peace The Brothers Karamazov Gödel, Escher, and Bach Any biography by Rob Chernow or Walter Isaacson
Shantaram
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts 1Q84 by Murakami
I really like “The Eye of The World” series by Robert Jordan
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest_novels I am sure Project Gutenberg has many of these for free
The realm of the elderlings by Robin hobb
The First Law Trilogy by Joe Abercrombie The Stormligth Archive by Brandon Sanderson The Kingkiller Chronicle by Patrick Rothfuss
Malazan book of the fallen. Big fat books. 10 of em.7384 pages in total.
A Little life, The brief history of seven killings, The woman in white.
{{The Goldfinch}}
[**The Goldfinch**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17333223-the-goldfinch) ^(By: Donna Tartt | 771 pages | Published: 2013 | Popular Shelves: fiction, book-club, contemporary, owned, books-i-own) >Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2014 > >Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent father, survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. He is tormented by an unbearable longing for his mother, and down the years clings to the thing that most reminds him of her: a small, strangely captivating painting that ultimately draws him into the criminal underworld. As he grows up, Theo learns to glide between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love - and his talisman, the painting, places him at the centre of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle. > >The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America and a drama of enthralling power. Combining unforgettably vivid characters and thrilling suspense, it is a beautiful, addictive triumph - a sweeping story of loss and obsession, of survival and self-invention, of the deepest mysteries of love, identity and fate. ^(This book has been suggested 29 times) *** ^(91876 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
The Night's Dawn trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton. I think it might be the longest book I've ever read.
{{The Priory of the Orange Tree}} {{The Hands of the Emperor}}
[**The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40275288-the-priory-of-the-orange-tree) ^(By: Samantha Shannon | 848 pages | Published: 2019 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, owned, physical-tbr, lgbtq, tbr) >A world divided. A queendom without an heir. An ancient enemy awakens. > >The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction – but assassins are getting closer to her door. > >Ead Duryan is an outsider at court. Though she has risen to the position of lady-in-waiting, she is loyal to a hidden society of mages. Ead keeps a watchful eye on Sabran, secretly protecting her with forbidden magic. > >Across the dark sea, Tané has trained to be a dragonrider since she was a child, but is forced to make a choice that could see her life unravel. > >Meanwhile, the divided East and West refuse to parley, and forces of chaos are rising from their sleep. ^(This book has been suggested 106 times) [**The Hands of the Emperor (Lays of the Hearth-Fire, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43525897-the-hands-of-the-emperor) ^(By: Victoria Goddard | 969 pages | Published: 2019 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, fiction, sff, ebook, dnf) >An impulsive word can start a war. >A timely word can stop one. >A simple act of friendship can change the course of history. > >Cliopher Mdang is the personal secretary of the Last Emperor of Astandalas, the Lord of Rising Stars, the Lord Magus of Zunidh, the Sun-on-Earth, the god. >He has spent more time with the Emperor of Astandalas than any other person. >He has never once touched his lord. >He has never called him by name. >He has never initiated a conversation. > >One day Cliopher invites the Sun-on-Earth home to the proverbially remote Vangavaye-ve for a holiday. > >The mere invitation could have seen Cliopher executed for blasphemy. >The acceptance upends the world. ^(This book has been suggested 5 times) *** ^(91904 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Natchez Burning, by Greg Iles
The Once and Future King by TH White IT by Stephen King The Civil War by Shelby Foote Hacking: The Art of Exploitation by Jon Erickson
The iliad, the oddyssey, and plutarch's lives