5 Long Books You Need To Read | #BookBreak

Have some spare time and need something meaty to get stuck into? Or are you simply looking to fill some of your summer holidays with a good long book? Well, in this episode I have Book Break's top five books that may suit you perfectly - each one 700 pages or more.

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Perdido Street Station by Chine Mieville

Rasputin by Douglas Smith

Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

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[OhBeNice]

I want to give The Brothers Karamazov a go.

[qualitystreetmoment]

My plan for summer is to finally get to all 756 pages of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy bind up. 2 weeks left of uni and I can't wait

[joannoriol]

Love, love, love your accent and your review.

[AmaranthNox]

I loved China miéville's Un Lun Dun and hadn't heard of her much since so definitely have to pick that one up

[Kellyk]

I finished reading the first Outlander book in 2017 and loved it took me 2 to 3 months to read it.

[rose_and_thorns]

Bleak House is definitely long but it's so good! Probably my favorite Dickens novel - it's so very Dickensian :)

A long but so worth it nonfiction option is The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson - all about the "great migration" of millions of Black Americans out of the Southern U.S., as they tried to find better social and economic environments and to escape Jim Crow laws. Thorough and well-researched but also very accessible and really poignant.

[bradlap]

A great long novel is both infinite jest by David Foster Wallace and also The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson.

[justinwhittaker]

Wasn't Nicholas Nickleby Charles Dickens longest novel?

[charlottesreadsthings]

I'm currently listening to David Copperfield by Charles Dickens on audiobook and it's 39 hours long!

[Tatyana]

My favorite long book is Les Miserables.