But I became interested in long novels last year. This is what I read in 2014, along with many other more standard length (~ 300 page) books. The order is approximate:
The Goldfinch – Donna Tartt (775 pages)
Skippy Dies – Paul Murray (672 pages)
I Know this Much to be True
-- Wally Lamb (912 pages)
Middlemarch – George Elliott (879 pages)
Portrait of a Lady – Henry James (660 pages)
Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackery (719 pages)
The Secret History – Donna Tartt (559 pages)
The Book of Strange New Things – Michel Fahey (500 pages)
Which were worth the time? I started but did not
finish some others, so all the above were worth it. However, with that
qualification, the only one I want the time back for is I Know this Much to be True. On the other hand, I might read Portrait of a Lady or Middlemarch again.
And here are the long books I started by did not finish:
The Way We Live Now – Anthony Trollope (800 pages)
Sacred Games – Vikram Chandra (992 pages)
Suitable Boy -- Vikram Seth (1488 pages)
