Roleplay gaming and fantasy novels have gone handinhand for most of their existence, but its a. My french edition of harry potter and the order of the phoenix is the longest book i. Asked in books and literature, essays, fiction writing what is the longest book ever written. Length of a book is typically associated with its sizespecifically page countleading many to assume the largest and thickest book equates to its length. Compiling a list of longest novels yields different results depending on whether pages, words or characters are counted.
Then youre going to want to check out these incredibly addictive mystery series that will pull you in from book one and never let you go. From stories of inspiring female sleuths to hardboiled. Even the authors know they are bloated beasts, for example take tad williams, writer of the memory, sorrow. Longest fantasy books we love great big fantasy books so page count matters to us. Top 10 longest novels in the english language listverse. They take up entire shelves of book cases all by themselves. These are some of the largest and longest running series in the literary world. Inappropriate the list including its title or description facilitates illegal activity, or contains hate speech or ad hominem attacks on a fellow goodreads member or author. The 29th and final book in the series, encyclopedia brown and the case of the soccer scheme, was published following sobols death in 2012. City of bones by cassandra clare, harry potter and the sorcerers stone by j. Here are 10 book series that are so addictive, youll wish they had an infinite number of titles.
They create epic journeys and worlds that feel almost threedimensional. Dune is the bestselling science fiction novel of all time, and has spawned a huge franchise i think were past series at this point. We tried for a certain amount of variety in terms of genre, style and era with this selection. Incorrect book the list contains an incorrect book please specify the title of the book.
Spam or selfpromotional the list is spam or selfpromotional. Book series here include lengths over 300 volumes to just 3 volumes not counting the amount of pages per book. Top 10 longest novels in the english languagetop 10 longest novels in the english languagei love a long book that i can really get into, so i decided to compile a list of the longest novels ever written. There are only so many hours for reading in your day. The novel and the satire were born at the same time in this series of misadventures befalling the romancebesotted mad knight errant. Whoever can crack the dune visuals and create a film or show that fans embrace will make shocking amounts of money. The books sold millions of copies and resulted in a. Oddly enough, no ones been able to tell dune visually no, im not counting lynchs dune. What is the longest science fiction saga in amount of books that wasnt created after movies or tv shows that is, discarding star trek, star wars, xfiles. As i did more research, i realized that there were many issues i had to take into consideration when deciding what to include on this list. The actual title is the story of the vivian girls, in what is known as the realms of the unreal, of the glandecoangelinnian war storm, caused by the child slave rebellion by henry.