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Top Ten Tuesday: The Longest SF&F Books I’ve Ever Read

The theme this week is “pick a genre and build a list around it”! We all know that between GoodReads and Am*zon, it’s just about impossible to get an accurate page count on a book. I’ve also worked the past two nights and am not in the most creative mood, so, using GoodReads alone, here are the longest ten scifi & fantasy books I’ve ever read!

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.

https://www.thatartsyreadergirl.com/top-ten-tuesday/

As always, I’m happy to return interaction on posts, but please don’t link things that aren’t lists! TTT isn’t for your random articles and nonsense 🤣

The List!

  • 1. The Shadow Riding by Robert Jordan: 1007 pages
  • 2. Dragon Mage by ML Spencer: 986 pages
  • 3. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: 912 pages
  • 4. To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini: 880 pages
  • 5. Deadhouse Gates by Steven Erikson: 868 pages
  • 6. Winterlight by Kristen Britain: 840 pages
  • 7. Winter by Marissa Meyer: 832 pages
  • 8. The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan: 800 pages
  • 9. Dreams of the Dying by Nicolas Lietzau: 728 pages
  • 10. City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare: 725 pages

There you have it! I don’t go for super long books so much anymore but so far, those are my top ten longest SFF reads according to GoodReads.  What’s yours?

15 replies on “Top Ten Tuesday: The Longest SF&F Books I’ve Ever Read”

I am not in the habit of reading super long books, which explains why several Harry Potter books are at the top of my list. I still remember when I was at the library to get The Order of the Phoenix during my first read-through of the series (just a few years ago), and by the time I had checked it out and left, my elbow hurt from holding it in the crook of my arm for a bit. Wives and Daughters is my longest non-HP book, though it’s not SFF. I never thought to sort my books by length; it’s pretty interesting to see!

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I remember that too as a kid! They felt so heavy to me that I mostly laid them flat and cracked the spines reading face down 🤣

And thanks! I was honestly feeling really lazy and tired to think of a list that GoodReads could do with minimal efforts 🤣

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I feel you! Sometimes I get the long books on Libby/Kindle too so they’re easier to hold 🤣 going to check your post out now!

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According to Goodreads, Harry Potter #5 is the longest book I’ve read, with my edition clocking in at 870 pages. The second is Stephen King’s 11/22/63, with 849 pages (and yes, I’m considering it SFF in this case). Of course, that assumes that you trust the GR page counts. 😉

This is a fun list though!

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The only problem with GR is that I never know what edition they are using to get those counts! Seeing as it’s usually a librarian submission (I think) they’re generally, I’m told, pretty accurate, where Amazon is all over the place. It’s a struggle lol

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My issue is that there are so many editions of some books and the page/print size can be all over the place, and so page counts vary. I’m a volunteer StoryGraph Librarian, and one of the things we had discussions about was how to track page count since it varies so much across different editions. There’s no easy way to do it, honestly. (And that’s not even taking ebook versions into account.)

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