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The Longest Novels Ever (by word count)

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People got used to consider novels for their aesthetic value. However, it's interesting to see which are the longest novels of all time.

Rated 1 point - posted 13 years ago by vlad in category Books.

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1.

Clarissa, Samuel Richardson

Over 1,000,000 words.

10 points - added 13 years ago by vlad -

2.

À la recherche du temps perdu, Marcel Proust

1,500,000 refreshing words: the longest novel according to Guinness World Records.

9 points - added 13 years ago by vlad -

3.

War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy

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4.

Ulysses by James Joyce

5 points - added 11 years ago by guest -

5.

The Story of the Vivian Girls, Henry Darger

9,000,000 words of never published, outsider art.

2 points - added 13 years ago by vlad -

6.

Sironia, Texas, Madison Cooper

1,100,000 words.

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7.

Poor Fellow My Country, Xavier Herbert

850,000 words.

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8.

Remembrance Rock, Carl Sandburg

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9.

Tokugawa Ieyasu, Sohachi Yamaoka

10 million Japanese characters in 40 volumes.

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10.

Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace

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11.

A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth

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12.

Malazan Book of the Fallen

10 books: 3,325,000 words

0 points - added 7 years ago by guest - 1 comment

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by Steven Erikson

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13.

The Subspace Emissary's Worlds Conquest

4,024,038 Words. A Super Smash Bros. Brawl fanfiction.

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14.

Marienbad My Love, Mark Leach

17 million words eBook of experimental literature. Since it was not published on paper and its literary genre is rather ambiguous, its supremacy in this list is questionable.