Lists

The longest popular novels

The 100 longest works of fiction among the 1,000 most-read books on Open Library, by median page count across at least 5 English print editions.

Longest

1,168

The Lord of the Rings

100th

561

pages

Top 15 by median pages

Open Library edition records.

Book	Author	Median pages	Reading time	Editions
The Lord of the Rings	J.R.R. Tolkien	1,168	20 h 35 min	36
Atlas Shrugged	Ayn Rand	1,168	20 h 35 min	13
It	Stephen King	1,138	20 h 04 min	19
The Complete Sherlock Holmes	Arthur Conan Doyle	1,122	19 h 47 min	39
Infinite Jest	David Foster Wallace	1,088	19 h 11 min	5
Under the Dome	Stephen King	1,074	18 h 56 min	6
A Dance With Dragons	George R. R. Martin	1,048	18 h 28 min	6
The Wise Man’s Fear	Patrick Rothfuss	1,000	17 h 38 min	5
The Pillars of the Earth	Ken Follett	988	17 h 24 min	18
A Storm of Swords	George R. R. Martin	976	17 h 12 min	9
Gone With the Wind	Margaret Mitchell	947	16 h 42 min	106
Lonesome Dove	Larry McMurtry	945	16 h 40 min	11
Rainbow Six	Tom Clancy	897	15 h 49 min	8
War and Peace	Лев Толстой	884	15 h 35 min	156
The Bachman Books	Stephen King	880	15 h 31 min	11
Inheritance	Christopher Paolini	880	15 h 31 min	6
A Feast for Crows	George R. R. Martin	864	15 h 14 min	8
The Dark Tower	Stephen King	863	15 h 13 min	7
The Passage	Justin Cronin	861	15 h 11 min	13
The Shadow Rising	Robert Jordan	856	15 h 05 min	6
Outlander	Diana Gabaldon	850	14 h 59 min	15
11/22/63	Stephen King	849	14 h 58 min	8
David Copperfield	Charles Dickens	837	14 h 45 min	168
The Stand	Stephen King	834	14 h 42 min	20
The brothers Karamazov	Fiódor Dostoievski	822	14 h 29 min	143
A Game of Thrones	George R. R. Martin	820	14 h 28 min	20
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix	J. K. Rowling	816	14 h 23 min	27
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	Douglas Adams	815	14 h 22 min	6
House of Earth and Blood	Sarah J. Maas	805	14 h 11 min	5
Shogun	James Clavell	803	14 h 09 min	5
Middlemarch	George Eliot	795	14 h 01 min	107
The Well of Ascension	Brandon Sanderson	786	13 h 52 min	6
Gravity's Rainbow	Thomas Pynchon	780	13 h 45 min	16
Red Storm Rising	Tom Clancy	778	13 h 42 min	6
Insomnia	Stephen King	774	13 h 38 min	14
Brisingr	Christopher Paolini	774	13 h 38 min	6
The Chronicles of Narnia	C. S. Lewis	768	13 h 32 min	8
A Court of Silver Flames	Sarah J. Maas	768	13 h 32 min	9
A Clash of Kings	George R. R. Martin	764	13 h 29 min	12
Ulysses	James Joyce	763	13 h 27 min	187
Four Past Midnight	Stephen King	763	13 h 27 min	19
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows	J. K. Rowling	759	13 h 23 min	27
The Eye of the World	Robert Jordan	750	13 h 13 min	13
Anna Karenina	Лев Толстой	738	13 h 01 min	225
A Little Life	Hanya Yanagihara	736	12 h 58 min	6
House of Leaves	Mark Z. Danielewski	736	12 h 58 min	5
Needful Things	Stephen King	736	12 h 58 min	15
The Fountainhead	Ayn Rand	727	12 h 49 min	26
A Court of Wings and Ruin	Sarah J. Maas	720	12 h 42 min	10
Breaking Dawn	Stephenie Meyer	720	12 h 42 min	22
Wolves of the Calla	Stephen King	714	12 h 35 min	8
Eldest	Christopher Paolini	704	12 h 25 min	7
Roots	Alex Haley	704	12 h 25 min	13
Dreamcatcher	Stephen King	704	12 h 25 min	12
Empire of Storms	Sarah J. Maas	704	12 h 25 min	9
Wizard and Glass	Stephen King	699	12 h 19 min	16
Duma Key	Stephen King	696	12 h 17 min	12
Wizard's First Rule	Terry Goodkind	692	12 h 12 min	10
The Great Hunt	Robert Jordan	688	12 h 08 min	7
Tower of Dawn	Sarah J. Maas	678	11 h 57 min	13
The Name of the Wind	Patrick Rothfuss	672	11 h 51 min	9
Queen of Shadows	Sarah J. Maas	664	11 h 42 min	8
American Gods	Neil Gaiman	658	11 h 36 min	14
Wolf Hall	Hilary Mantel	653	11 h 31 min	13
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince	J. K. Rowling	652	11 h 30 min	23
The Dragon Reborn	Robert Jordan	648	11 h 25 min	8
Foucault's Pendulum	Umberto Eco	641	11 h 18 min	15
A Court of Mist and Fury	Sarah J. Maas	640	11 h 17 min	9
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire	J. K. Rowling	640	11 h 17 min	36
Iron Flame	Rebecca Yarros	640	11 h 17 min	7
The Lost Symbol	Dan Brown	639	11 h 16 min	17
The Portrait of a Lady	Henry James	634	11 h 11 min	126
The Girl Who Played with Fire	Stieg Larsson	630	11 h 06 min	7
Eclipse	Stephenie Meyer	629	11 h 05 min	16
Children of Time	Adrian Tchaikovsky	624	11 h	5
The Count of Monte Cristo	Alexandre Dumas	621	10 h 57 min	88
Angels & Demons	Dan Brown	620	10 h 56 min	30
The Idiot	Fiódor Dostoievski	616	10 h 51 min	146
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle	村上春樹	612	10 h 47 min	10
The Final Empire	Brandon Sanderson	612	10 h 47 min	10
Inferno	Dan Brown	611	10 h 46 min	13
House of Hades	Rick Riordan	608	10 h 43 min	9
Les trois Mousquetaires	Alexandre Dumas	608	10 h 43 min	177
The Mark of Athena	Rick Riordan	602	10 h 37 min	7
East of Eden	John Steinbeck	602	10 h 37 min	36
Heir of Fire	Sarah J. Maas	592	10 h 26 min	8
Things We Left Behind	Lucy Score	592	10 h 26 min	5
Deception Point	Dan Brown	586	10 h 20 min	20
Lisey's Story	Stephen King	582	10 h 16 min	18
Fifty Shades Freed	E. L. James	579	10 h 12 min	5
Leviathan Wakes	James S. A. Corey	576	10 h 09 min	5
The Outsider	Stephen King	576	10 h 09 min	9
Origin	Dan Brown	575	10 h 08 min	6
Exile	Shannon Messenger	568	10 h 01 min	5
The Book Thief	Markus Zusak	568	10 h	16
The Woman in White	Wilkie Collins	568	10 h	236
New Moon	Stephenie Meyer	563	9 h 55 min	17
The Lost Hero	Rick Riordan	562	9 h 54 min	9
Inkheart	Cornelia Funke	562	9 h 54 min	18
The Institute	Stephen King	561	9 h 53 min	7

Data: Open Library monthly data dumps (works, editions, authors, reading log, ratings) (Open Library / Internet Archive); How many words do we read per minute? A review and meta-analysis of reading rate (Marc Brysbaert, Journal of Memory and Language 109 (2019)).