March of the Mammoths 2025 Potential Books

Here are the books I'm considering as potential titles to read for the 2025 March of the Mammoths Readathon tackling books that are 800+ pages!

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[charlottetracy]

You always crack me up! I so appreciate you maintaining a sense of self=deprecating humor. Good luck with those mammoths.

[CamsCampbellReads]

You’re definitely smart enough to get Dostoyevsky! I’m reading it again now as part of a group read over the year. First time I read it I had to for uni and it bored me. But I was a very different person then and it was 30 years ago. No shame in quitting. You can always come back!

[Sarah_Jean]

Yes for Atkinson. I need to read The British Are Coming before I read the 2nd book in the trilogy. It’s on my shelf and I’m sure to get to it sometime.

[KayBurkhardt-xwgv]

Yey!! Ok yeah I'm going for silent spring revolution and Rick Atkinson s books on my library libby app have some in my cart at thriftbooks.. can't put the snoring bird down by heinrich and finishing up les miserables.., whew, always busy reading something. Thanks for the recs ., , appreciate all the new titles all the time.!!! have a good weekend

[ReadingIDEAS.-uzxk]

Biggest book I have read is the Count of Monte Cristo. A great read. Definitely a different experience being with a book and characters for so long. Best wishes and happy reading.

[KritterRaw]

been trying for ~ 10 years to read War and Peace. i plan to get through it during March of the Mammoths. love the video and the books you chose to highlight!

[lolaphearse]

You are obviously smart enough to get it-I would recommend you DNF the Brothers K if you do not enjoy it, and read the books you love instead!

[margarethaines]

Reading a book you recommended earlier (I think it was you 🙂), The Enlightenment, by Robertson. It is officially 780 pages, with a hundred plus pages of references and selected bibliography ~ so I'm going to say it counts!

[KatJack-vlxj]

It seems as if you really want to read Silent Spring Revolution. But I'd also recommend the Greek tragedies -- they're plays, so the actual number of pages is not that daunting. It would certainly give you more background on your ancient Greece obsession:) Besides, they are great literature and the foundation of drama.

[stargater]

The Witching Hour by Anne Rice and Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day.

I'm going to try 😊

[battybibliophile-Clare]

You might like War and Peace, it discusses history, the great man, and is quite philosophical in the interior lives of some of the main characters.
The Charles Taylor sounds interesting.I read Euripides a year or so ago, he was the popular playwright of his era, and he can be fun.

[stuartgriffin]

I read The Brothers Karamazov fairly recently and I did like it. Other 800+ page books that I've read are The Stand by Stephen King and Call Me Barbra by Barbra Streisand. One mammoth book I would like to read is Les Misérables by Victor Hugo. I started it and read around 100 pages a few years ago

[ApostateMike-]

I love that LOTR sign in the background

[Fernie]

Brothers Karamazov is good, but might not be the best 'first read' of Dostoevsky, though people seem to like dysfunctional families. I started with House of the Dead, his experience in Russian prison; it's depressing but gets you into his way of thinking.
I'm just finishing 2 mammoths, a Victorian novel by Trollope and War and Peace by Tolstoy. I don't think I would have liked Dostoevsky as much if I had started with Tolstoy. I love War and Peace. March I am reading 2 more mammoths: Don Quixote by Cervantes and Barnaby Rudge by Dickens. Should be a great month!

[marianamasbooks]

I always want to participate in March of the Mammoths but I’m always doing other reading projects in March! It’s always on my mind though. I actually DNFd Crime and Punishment lol, I haven’t attempted any other Dostoevsky since 😅 Maybe he’s not for me either?

[ThatReadingGuy]

Dostoyevsky is an acquired taste. It takes some time to get what he’s doing, but once you get it, he’s brilliant. There’s no shame in putting The Brothers K down and going back to it some other time.

[corytracy]

Hey man, where in Maine do you live? I live in Portland.