Long Books

These are long and/or “difficult” books and series that I have read, listed in no particular order.

• Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo, translated by Christine Donougher
• Novels of Middle-earth, by J. R. R. Tolkien
  • The Hobbit
  • The Fellowship of the Ring
  • The Two Towers
  • The Return of the King
  • The Silmarillion
• Ulysses, by James Joyce
• In Search of Lost Time, by Marcel Proust
  • Swann’s Way
  • In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
  • The Guermantes Way
  • Sodom and Gomorrah
  • The Captive
  • The Fugitive
  • Time Regained
• Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand
• Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Edith Grossman
• A Suitable Boy, by Vikram Seth
• War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volkhonsky
• Bleak House, by Charles Dickens
• Our Mutual Friend, by Charles Dickens
• Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace
• Gravity’s Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon
• The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexander Dumas, unknown translator
• Shōgun, by James Clavell
• Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel
  • Wolf Hall
  • Bring Up the Bodies
• Middlemarch, by George Eliot
• Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, by Susanna Clarke
• The Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follett
• The Baroque Cycle, by Neal Stephenson
  • Quicksilver
  • The Confusion
  • The System of the World
• Anathem, by Neal Stephenson
• 1Q84, by Haruki Murakami
• The Mars Trilogy, by Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Red Mars
  • Green Mars
  • Blue Mars
  • The Martians
• The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins
• The Moonstone, by Wilkie Collins
• The Way We Live Now, by Anthony Trollope
• Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry
• Dune, by Frank Herbert
• The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
• East of Eden, by John Steinbeck
• Tess of the D’Urbervilles, by Thomas Hardy
• Paradise Lost, by John Milton
• Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville
• I, Claudius, by Robert Graves
  • I, Claudius
  • Claudius the God
• Hyperian Cantos, by Dan Simmons
  • Hyperion
  • The Fall of Hyperion
  • Endymion
  • The Rise of Endymion

These series are long, but I do not consider them difficult:

• Masters of Rome, by Colleen McCullough
  • The First Man in Rome
  • The Grass Crown
  • Fortunes Favorites
  • Caesar’s Women
  • Caesar
  • The October Horse
  • Antony and Cleopatra
• Foundation, by Isaac Asimov
  • Foundation
  • Foundation and Empire
  • Second Foundation
  • Foundation’s Edge
  • Foundation and Earth
  • Prelude to Foundation
  • Forward the Foundation
• All Creatures Great and Small, by James Herriot
  • All Creatures Great and Small
  • All Things Bright and Beautiful
  • All Things Wise and Wonderful
  • The Lord Got Made Them All
• A Song of Ice and Fire, by George R. R. Martin
  • A Game of Thrones
  • A Clash of Kings
  • A Storm of Swords
  • A Feast for Crows
  • A Dance with Dragons
• The Saga of Seven Suns, by Kevin J. Anderson
  • Hidden Empire
  • A Forest of Stars
  • Horizon Storms
  • Scattered Suns
  • Of Fire and Night
  • Metal Swarm
  • The Ashes of Worlds
• The Expanse, by James S. A. Corey
  • Leviathan Wakes
  • Caliban’s War
  • Abaddon’s Gate
  • Cibola Burn
  • Nemesis Games
  • Babylon’s Ashes
  • Persepolis Rising
  • Tiamat’s Wrath
  • Leviathan Falls
• Imperial Radch Universe, by Ann Leckie
  • Ancillary Justice
  • Ancillary Sword
  • Ancillary Mercy
  • Provenance
  • Translation State
• Harry Potter, by J. K. Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
  • Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
  • Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

This is a list of long and/or difficult books that I haven’t read:

• Midnight’s Children, by Salman Rushdie
• The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner
• Finnegan’s Wake, by James Joyce
• Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
• The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• At Swim-Two-Birds, by Flann O’Brien
• The Third Policeman, by Flann O’Brien
• The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy
• Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• An Interrupted Life, by Etty Hillesum
• Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke
• House of Leaves, by Mark Z. Danielewski