10 big books for 2025

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39 participants (113 books)

01 Feb 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Let's challange ourselves to read the biggest books from our TBR lists. I'll count all books over 500 pages, but will try to get a couple in that are 800 or even 1000 pages long.

Challenge Books

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Captain's Fury by Jim Butcher

Captain's Fury

Codex Alera #4

Jim Butcher

598 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

fiction fantasy adventurous dark fast-paced
Empire of the Damned by Jay Kristoff

Empire of the Damned

Empire of the Vampire #2

Jay Kristoff

646 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction fantasy horror adventurous dark emotional medium-paced
Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson

Wind and Truth

The Stormlight Archive #5

Brandon Sanderson

1330 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction fantasy adventurous emotional tense medium-paced
Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros

Onyx Storm

The Empyrean #3

Rebecca Yarros

530 pages • first pub 2025 (editions)

fiction fantasy romance adventurous emotional tense medium-paced
Learning Python: Powerful Object-Oriented Programming by Mark Lutz

Learning Python: Powerful Object-Oriented Programming

Mark Lutz

1540 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction computer science reference informative slow-paced
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

The Woman in White

Wilkie Collins

756 pages • first pub 1859 (editions)

fiction classics mystery dark mysterious slow-paced
The Rise of Endymion by Dan Simmons

The Rise of Endymion

Hyperion Cantos #4

Dan Simmons

720 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

fiction fantasy science fiction adventurous slow-paced
Helliconia Summer by Brian W. Aldiss

Helliconia Summer

Helliconia #2

Brian W. Aldiss

576 pages • first pub 1983 (editions)

fiction fantasy science fiction adventurous challenging medium-paced
Endymion by Dan Simmons

Endymion

Hyperion Cantos #3

Dan Simmons

576 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)

fiction fantasy science fiction adventurous challenging mysterious slow-paced
Storm's Edge: Life, Death and Magic in the Islands of Orkney by Peter Marshall

Storm's Edge: Life, Death and Magic in the Islands of Orkney

Peter Marshall

560 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction history