BBC Radio 4: The ten books we rarely get around to reading

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BBC Radio 4: The ten books we rarely get around to reading

Lockdown has got us thinking about all the best bulky books out there. Put off if a novel doesn’t fit in your pocket? Don’t be. After all, right now there aren't many reasons not to tackle a thousand-page tome.

Here are some of literature’s greatest gargantuan novels that we should all add to our list. Read on if you dare…
NOTE: These page counts for books are approximations by BBC and will vary with your edition of the book.

Challenge Prompts

1. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville (720 pages)

2. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (736 pages)

3. Middlemarch by George Eliot (880 pages)

4. Bleak House by Charles Dickens (928 pages)

5. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (976 pages)

6. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (1,079 pages)

7. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1,296 pages)

8. The Stand by Stephen King (1,344 pages)

9. A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth (1,504 pages)

10. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust (3,031 pages)

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