Book Title | Author | # of Words | Language | Volumes |
---|---|---|---|---|
Artamène | Madeleine and Georges de Scudéry | 2,100,000 | French | 10 |
Les Hommes de Bonne Volonté | Jules Romains | 2,070,000 | French | 27 |
het bureau | J. J. Voskuil | 1,590,000 | Dutch | 7 |
In Search of Lost Time | Marcel Proust | 1,500,000[1] | French | 7 |
L'Astrée | Honoré d'Urfé (completed by Balthazar Baro and Pierre Boitel) | 1,422,700 | French | 6 |
Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady | Samuel Richardson | 969,000[2] Third edition substantially increased text to over 1 million words. | English | 9 |
Sironia, Texas | Madison Cooper | 1,100,000[3] (est.)[4] | English | 2 |
Zettels Traum | Arno Schmidt | ~1,000,000 | German | 1 |
Poor Fellow My Country | Xavier Herbert | 850,000[5] | English | 1 |
Women and Men | Joseph McElroy | 716,000 | English | 1 |
Miss MacIntosh, My Darling | Marguerite Young | 700,000[6] | English | 1 |
Varney the Vampire | James Malcolm Rymer (alternatively attributed to Thomas Preskett Prest) | 667,000[7] | English | 1 |
The Man Without Qualities | Robert Musil | 657,000 | German | 3 |
Atlas Shrugged | Ayn Rand | 645,000[8] | English | 1 |
The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later | Alexandre Dumas, père | 626,000[9][10][11] | French | 1 |
A Suitable Boy | Vikram Seth | 591,552[12] | English | 1 |
Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallace | 575,000[13] | English | 1 |
War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy | 560,000[14] | Russian/French | 4 |
Il mulino del Po | Riccardo Bacchelli | 559,800 | Italian | 3 |
Remembrance Rock | Carl Sandburg | 532,030[15] | English | 1 |
Les Misérables | Victor Hugo | 513,000 | French | 1 |
Friday, February 10, 2012
21 Longest Novels (by word count)
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