Ten of the worlds longest books for reading addicts. Top 10 longest books in the world 2018 update articles. Since then it has sold more than 143 million copies in over 100 countries, and has been translated into at least 22 languages. The guinness book of world records gives the honor to marcel prousts elephantine remembrance of things past, weighing in at 9,609,000 characters including spaces. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 350 pages and is available in paperback format.
Not only will our tool tell you how many pages your book is, but it will also tell you how you are doing compared to other books in your genre. Seeking an entry in the guinness book of world records, a college principal on monday released a book with the longest title of 1022 words with 4805 characters and no space. If youre looking for videos featuring the worlds tallest, shortest, fastest, longest, oldest and most incredible things on. King talked to time about his top 10 biggest books, reflecting on the circumstances under which they were written and the critical reception that they received. A suitable boy by vikram seth which is an amazing piece of literary work and personally i consider his lifes masterpiece is simply magnanimous. The length of the book increases with the number of book in the series.
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. Take a look at some of the longest novels, size really does matter. By scrolling the replaced lines, the 333 real lines in this section will be loaded and. Plus, for readers, the length of a book generally refers to the number of pages but while considering books for world records, it could be the. I just finished reading this book and it was truly a wonderful and emotional ride to read this. Not big as in tom wolfeesque, the way we live now big, but big as in this book is literally, physically huge. Though it is a whopping 2,100,000 words and, 095 pages long, in its time it was. The problem is that once someone removes duplicates, it can change which edition is listed to the most popular edition, and which is often a shortened version of the title. I used word count, not number of pages, as the measure of length, and 3. At that point, i think we can safely say that we have produced the worlds longest book. Find 280 hidden objects in this amazing new 16foot scene of a relay race through a city. It has been published in 9 volumes over a period of 40 years. Top 10 longest novels in the english language listverse.
The length of the page is 100% generated by adding one line with every visitor. Here are the longest series, as determined by the number of completed, full books in the series. This also covers whether the length of your book classifies as a short story, novella, or novel, etc. Message in a bottle, a walk to remember, the notebook, nights in rodanthe, dear john, the last song, the lucky one, safe haven, and most recently the longest ride. Eleven of nicholas sparkss novels the choice, the longest ride, the best of me, safe haven, the lucky one, the last song, dear john, nights in rodanthe, the notebook, a walk to remember, and message in a bottlehave been adapted into. Welcome to worlds longest website growing with every. Im currently reading the making of the atomic bomb by richard rhodes and at just under 900 pages long its one of the largest books ive ever read together with the bible. Dr subramonian, principal, dr r v arts and science college, karamadai, about 25 km from coimbatore, has written a book about daniel radcliffe, the young actor, who gave life to j k rowlings character harry.
Each book is around 900 pages and chronicles the lives of families in different countries including the ways they intersect over the span of a century. When we tested the system we experienced massive loading times when displaying a huge amount of individual visitor lines with their real text. If the book in the middle of her shelf has three times the number of pages of the shortest book, then how many pages does the middle book have. I used logos bible software to find out which books are the longest, by original word count. The novel, written in three books, is a story of ideas, which takes place during the last days of the. Though it is a whopping 2,100,000 words and, 095 pages long, in its time it was hugely popular. This task ended up being much more complex than one would think a list of longest books ever should be. Britains tax code is an incredible 17, 000 pages long.
Guinness world records books guinness world records. Thousands of pages of poetry are translated into other languages. Harry potter and the deathly hallows, the only book with officially 2 parts. Pdf the longest day book by cornelius ryan free download. The kuniczak translation that i read totaled 1861 pages. By scrolling the replaced lines, the 333 real lines in this section will be loaded and displayed. Longest hidden pictures puzzle ever highlights for children. The longest ride is nicholas sparks 17th romance novel, released on september 17, 20. Jasmines longest book has 396 pages and her shortest book has onefourth as many pages as the longest.
Ive read a few other nicholas sparks books before but never has one moved me like this one has. Over the years, there has been some controversy over what constitutes the worlds longest novel. Proust produced the first volume of his volume masterpiece in 1912 it was first published in 19. A book with a million authors and a million chapters now thats a project worth getting excited about. Kings latest, under the dome, is his third longest novel ever. The first edition of the novel was published in 1959, and was written by cornelius ryan. Not the longest, long book, but at 800 pages its not shabby. If you are a big book reader or youre curious about the lengths some ya novels have gone in their physical manifestation then youll enjoy this look at the longest ya books around. Welcome to the official international book of records youtube channel. It is supposedly the worlds longest published novel in english at 2. The longest ride follows two couples and ends up with how their lives intertwine.
April 16, 2020 the longest chapter leave a comment. Im not sure what the longest book that ive read was, but i can pretty much guarantee it was written by stephen king. My biggest flipbook ever the return of grumpy cloud. Essentially, the book is a giant surreal comedy about the dangers of entertainment. It is now one of my favorite books, and i even feel a bit lost now that i am not lugging it around. The second part of his work won international awards as soon as it was published and with them, an international reputation.
Does anyone know how many pages the first warrior cat book has. Books guinness world records 2021 wild things guinness world records kids website guinness world records tv shows guinness world records. Most pages in a flip book international book of records. Compiling a list of longest novels yields different results depending on whether pages, words or characters are counted. Say an author announces that his or her next book will be the longest book in the world. Even though psalms has more contributors than any other book of the bible, it turns out that two other books are much longer than psalms. The longest chapter literary fiction, poetry, first. Author stephen king has a reputation for the big book. Free download or read online the longest day pdf epub book. For a full list of record titles, please use our record.
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. What are the longest and shortest books of the bible. The longest harry potter book in the series is harry potter and the oder of the phoenix. Most resources claim that the book of psalms is the longest book in the old testament, and therefore the bible. Lots of my friends have read it and i can never find it in the library so im just curious about how long it is.
An enclyclopedia with 11,095 volumes and 22,877 chapters. If the calculation is based on the number of verses or the number of chapters or the number of pages, it is correct. Incredible achievements, fun facts and amazing images. The book, much like grossmans first two novels, is radically experimental. Its incredibly long and dense it has hundreds of endnotes pages and deals with a highly complex subject matter. The list below has been compiled from a lot of research, and it includes only stand alone titles or the first book in a series. Special thanks to lydia boyd and stacy dean for their help on this project. Any book by ken follett is fantastic, but i really love his century trilogy. Book page count calculator how many pages is my novel.
The length of a book is usually at least among the readers considered to be the number of pages from cover to cover. January 29, 2015 seattle the worlds longest domino chain. The main characters of this history, war story are. The longest ride by nicholas sparks, paperback barnes. After being trapped in an isolated car crash, the life of elderly widower ira levinson becomes entwined with a young college student, sophia danko, and the cowboy whom she loves, a young man named luke collins. The longest book ever written the longest book ever written is called yongle dadian.
No book that size is perfect, because excess is kind of the point. Its definitely an aspirational story, but its also one of the longest science fiction books of all time. If you write a book according to the usual criteria, one person may like it, the other may dislike it, but when you write ten volumes, no one will say that the book is in eight. Longest and shortest book in the new testament july 11, 2011 posted by daniel ayad in unique. It is currently the longest novel published in modern chinese. Heres a look at three of them, and also one that didnt make the cut but has an interesting scandal going on in norway. The megaselling guinness world records book has been an annual phenomenon since its very first publication in 1955. Here, he definitively answers the ageold question of how long the longest book in the world could be.
It is quite well known that the longest book in the bible is the psalms, of which there are 150 individual psalms. However, the editors and the publishers are counting a bit different they count the number of words. The longest single volume that i have read is probably cryptonomicon by neal stephenson, at 1168 pages. He has seventeen published novels as of september 20 plus one nonfiction. The book has been awarded with premio bancarella 1962, cornelius. Also, does anybody know how many pages the longest warrior cats book has. Longest and shortest book in the new testament daniel. Twentyfive nominees in five categories made it from the longlist to the shortlist of the national book awards. It was in fact larger but the publishers managed to convince him to shed a. The longest novel in a single volume that i have ever read is a suitable boy by vikram seth. It contains 3,958 pages in four volumes and took 10 years to complete. A long novel tends to be no longer than a pages at most, which is already pushing the boundary. This book in malayalam is known as the longest written in an indian language. Harry potter and the chamber of secrets is 341 pages.