Happy Tuesday! Today bloggers are featuring their favorite books with BIG page counts. In my youth, I was a big reader of chunksters. The longer the better. But my advanced age, limited free time, and reading deadlines keep me from choosing those mega-books. I know, I know — I am retired. But my husband’s retirement earlier in the year really impacts my reading time. LOL! So today I am going to highlight my favorites from the distant past and those books that qualify as BIG books that I have read more recently and enjoyed. I define a Big Book as 450+ pages.
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Top Big Books!
Five from The Past
Bleak House by Charles Dickens (800+ pages)
Exodus by Leon Uris (500+ pages)
Poland by James Michener (600+ pages)
The Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas (500+ pages)
Sarum by Edward Rutherfurd (900+ pages)
More Recently Read
Code Name Helene by Ariel Lawhon (450+ pages)
A Noble Calling by Rhona Weaver (450+ pages)
When We Were Young And Brave by Hazel Gaynor (450+ pages)
The Women by Kristin Hannah (450+ pages)
The Women of Chateau Lafayette by Stephanie Dray (500+ pages)
When We Were Young and Brave sounds good.
I recommend it all the time!
Bleak House has a cool cover.
Here is our Top Ten Tuesday.
Weaver’s Yellowstone series are so long! But they don’t feel that long (thankfully) when reading them lol
I have only read book 1. Need to get on the reading ball!
I have not read any of these and have only heard of Kristin Hannah’s book.
Rhona Weaver is a Christian author. Her character is an FBI agent assigned to Yellowstone. Check her out! The Robe is a classic that tells the story of the impact of Christ’s crucifixion on a Roman soldier.
I have forgotten that I wanted to read Code Name Helen. Thanks for reminding me about it.
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I have all the time in the world and I still tend to avoid books over 500 pages. I just don’t have as much patience for them as I used to. THE WOMEN is on my list this week, too. It was one of those long books that just seem to go on and on and on. I’d say it was only an average read for me.
Happy TTT (on a Wednesday)!
Susan
http://www.blogginboutbooks.com
It probably would have been just as good with a lower page count. 😉