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When I started collecting data for this project, I pulled down from my shelves every book that looked bigger than most of the others. In this age of Big Data, I just couldn’t quite discard all the remaining titles after I determined the 20 longest. Therefore, here’s the second installment of the biggest books I own, numbers 21-40, plus one more because of one that got overlooked (see below).
21. Henry James: A Life by Leon Edel
- 740 pages
- hardcover
- read
22. Ulysses by James Joyce
- 732 pages
- paperback
- unread
23. The First Tycoon by T.J. Stiles
- 719 pages
- paperback
- unread
24. The House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
- 709 pages
- paperback
- unread
25. The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion by Tracy Daugherty
- 703 pages
- hardcover
- unread
26. The Jameses: A Family Narrative by R.W.B. Lewis
- 696 pages
- paperback
- read
27. An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears
- 692 pages
- hardcover
- read
28. The Iliad by Homer, translated by Robert Fagles
- 683 pages
- hardcover
- read
29. Roughing It by Mark Twain
- 673 pages
- hardcover
- read
30. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
- 652 pages
- hardcover
- read
31. Personal History by Katharine Graham
- 642 pages
- hardcover
- unread
32. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
- 36 pages
- hardcover
- read
33. The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
- 624 pages
- hardcover
- unread
34. Babel Tower by A.S. Byatt
- 619 pages
- hardcover
- unread
35. The Little Drummer Girl by John le Carré
- 590 pages
- (Kindle)
- unread
36. Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin
- 580 pages
- hardcover
- unread
37. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
- 568 pages
- hardcover
- unread
38. Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
- 562 pages
- hardcover
- unread
39. Dune by Frank Herbert
- 562 pages
- hardcover
- read
40. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
- 435 pages
- hardcover
- read
Correction
Somehow, this book got overlooked:
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
- 870 pages
- hardcover
- read
At 870 pages, it should clock in at #12 overall.
© 2019 by Mary Daniels Brown