LITERATURE
Technical
Longest Books
This list features the longest books ever written based on word count.
RANK | BOOK | AUTHOR | WORDS | PAGES | YEAR |
1 | Marienbad My Love | Mark Leach | 17.80 million | 10,710 | 2013 |
2 | The Blah Story | Nigel Tomm | 11.33 million | 17,868 | 2008 |
3 | In the Realms of the Unreal | John MacGregor | 3.78 million | 15,145 | 2002 |
4 | Artamenes | Madeleine de Scudéry | 1.95 million | 7,443 | 1649 |
5 | In Search of Lost Time | Marcel Proust | 1.26 million | 4,215 | 1911–1927 |
6 | Zettel’s Traum | Arno Schmidt | 1.10 million | 1,334 | 1970 |
7 | Sirenia, Texas | Madison Cooper | 1.10 million | 1,731 | 1952 |
8 | Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady | Samuel Richardson | 970,000 | 1,534 | 1748 |
9 | Poor Fellow My Country | Xavier Herbert | 850,000 | 1,463 | 1975 |
10 | Jerusalem | Alan Moore | 600,000 | 1,266 | 2016 |
11 | A Suitable Boy | Vikram Seth | 591,552 | 1,349 | 1993 |
12 | War & Peace | Leo Tolstoy | 587,287 | 1,225 | 1869 |
13 | Atlas Shrugged | Ayn Rand | 561,996 | 1,168 | 1957 |
14 | Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallace | 483,994 | 1,079 | 1996 |
15 | Miss Macintosh, My Darling | Marguerite Young | 299,500 | 1,198 | 1965 |
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