21 Longest Novels (by word count)

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