The Long and the Short of Libraries
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The time for summer reading is upon us in the Northern Hemisphere, so if you want to tackle one of the titans of long fiction, here is a list of titles that are among the longest novels ever published. Need more than one summer to get through these monsters? You could try one from this selection of books of short stories, with more stories discoverable in the short stories profile from WorldCat Genres.
The Long
- A la Recherche du Temps Perdu (In Search of Lost Time)
(2400 pp./~1,267,069 words) - 三国演义 (Romance of the Three Kingdoms)
(2,340 pp./~800,000 words) - Clarissa
(1533 pp./~984,870 words) - Poor Fellow My Country
(1463 pp./~852,000 words) - Les Misérables
(1463 pp./~530,982 words) - Война и мир (War and Peace)
(1344 pp./~561,093 words) - Atlas Shrugged
(1168 pp./~645,000 words) - To Green Angel Tower
(1083 pp./~520,000 words) - Infinite Jest
(1079 pp./~543,709 words) - Remembrance Rock
(1067 pp./~532,030 words)
The Short
- The Stories of John Cheever
(693 pp./61 stories) - The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour
(470 pp./35 stories) - The Garden of Eden and Other
Criminal Delights
(343 pp./17 stories) - Night Shift
(336 pp./20 stories) - Unaccustomed Earth
(333 pp./8 stories) - The Ugly American
(285 pp./21 stories) - Close Range: Wyoming Stories
(283 pp./11 stories) - The Luck of Roaring Camp
(256 pp./16 stories) - Tales of the Black Widowers
(186 pp./12 stories) - South Sea Tales
(167 pp./8 stories)
These lists were inspired by the WorldCat Genres short stories profile and the list of longest novels Wikipedia page and constructed on 19 May 2014.
WorldCat Genres is a joint experiment from OCLC Research and the WorldCat.org team. Genre profiles allow users to browse genre terms for hundreds of titles, authors, subjects, characters, places, and more, ranked by popularity in WorldCat.
WorldCat is the world's largest and most comprehensive catalog of library resources from around the world, with more than 314 million bibliographic records that represent more than 2 billion items held by participating libraries, including books, movies, music, e-books, licensed databases, online periodicals, digital collections and more. Because of its scale, WorldCat can be used to represent a large part of the scholarly and cultural record.