What is Stephen King's longest book?

The Complete and Uncut Edition of The Stand is Stephen King's longest stand-alone work at 1,152 pages, surpassing his 1,138-page novel It. The book has sold 4.5 million copies. The Stand was highly appreciated by reviewers and is considered one of King's best novels.
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What is the longest book ever written?

The Guinness Book of World Records gives the honor to Marcel Proust's elephantine Remembrance of Things Past, weighing in at 9,609,000 characters (including spaces).
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What is Stephen King's third longest book?

King on King

King's latest, Under the Dome, is his third longest novel ever.
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What is the longest reading book?

26 Very Long Books Worth the Time They'll Take to Read
  • Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes (1605, 976 pp.) ...
  • Bleak House, by Charles Dickens (1853, 960 pp.) ...
  • War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy (1869, 1,296 pp.) ...
  • Middlemarch, by George Eliot (1872, 880 pp.) ...
  • The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1880, 824 pp.)
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Is there a book with a million words?

Sironia, Texas by Madison Cooper (roughly 1.1 million words)

Sironia, Texas made headlines in 1952 for being the longest book written and published to date. Author Madison Cooper spent eleven years writing about a fictional town that many say have ties to where Cooper grew up in Waco, Texas.
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What book was on the bestseller list the longest?

RESETTING THE CLOCK: What current best seller has been on the list the longest? At 287 weeks, the winner is “Percy Jackson & the Olympians,” by Rick Riordan, which you'll find on the children's series list at No. 8. Second place goes to “The Devil in the White City,” by Erik Larson, at No.
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What is Stephen King's favorite book?

It has become common knowledge for devout King fans that his favorite book he's ever written is Lisey's Story. This 2006 novel is very personal for King, as it focuses on his relationship with his wife, Tabitha.
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What is Stephen King's most popular book?

"The Shining"

It should hardly be a surprise that Stephen King's most popular book is also his first-ever bestseller: "The Shining," a classic 1977 horror novel, spurred a cult-favorite movie and a sequel.
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Which book has most pages?

Infinite Jest

It's the novel you suspect you should have read by now but, most likely, haven't. Published in 1996 at a length of 1,079 pages, Infinite Jest took David Foster Wallace four years to write.
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Is War and Peace the longest book?

War and Peace has 587,287 words, making it more than ten times longer than your NaNoWriMo novel. Tolstoy completed his first draft in 1863, but he later spent three years rewriting most of it.
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What book has the most chapters?

None other than Victor Hugo's classic Les Miserables! The novel is divided into five volumes, each volume divided into several books, and subdivided into chapters, for a total of 48 books and 365 chapters. Each chapter is relatively short, commonly no longer than a few pages.
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What is Stephen King's best selling novel?

Stephen King's top-selling novel is The Shining. The novel was first published in 1977, or 44 years ago (as of 2021). When you multiply 44 by the yearly book sales (15,732), you get 692,208 copies sold.
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What does Stephen King call his readers?

Is this the first time that King used his now well known nickname for his fans 'Constant Readers'. Or, had he been using it before he wrote Misery and just threw it in there as a nod to his fans.
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What Stephen King should I read first?

The Mist - Controversial adaptations

'The Mist', the novella that opens King's second short story collection, 1985's Skeleton Crew, is the first King work I ever read.
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What is Stephen King's scariest novel?

Stephen King: 15 Scariest Stephen King Novels Ever, Ranked
  1. 1 It. Without a doubt, the most popular, horrifying and chilling novel ever written by Stephen King is none other than It.
  2. 2 Salem's Lot. ...
  3. 3 Black House. ...
  4. 4 Pet Sematary. ...
  5. 5 The Shining. ...
  6. 6 Desperation. ...
  7. 7 Cujo. ...
  8. 8 Carrie. ...
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Who is the best-selling author of all time?

Heralded as the Queen of Mystery, Agatha Christie is the best-selling novelist of all time, outsold only by Shakespeare and the Bible. According to a recent study conducted by Harper Collins, Christie has sold more than 1 billion copies in the English language alone.
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Who is Stephen King's favorite author?

CHOICES: Stephen King was asked by The New York Times Book Review to name his favorite writers working today. King's latest novel is Finder Keepers. King replied: “Novelists: Jonathan Franzen, for Strong Motion, and Kate Atkinson for the Jackson Brodie novels, which are marvels of plot.
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Who is the richest author in the world?

FAQs on Richest Writers

J.K. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter series, is the richest writer in the world with a net worth of $1 billion.
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Who is Stephen King's favorite character?

In a panel at Lisner Audiotorium, the author is asked his favorite character is to write for. He gives several answers. King's first answer is Annie Wilkes from Misery. Wilkes is an obsessive stalker who kidnaps her favorite author and makes him write for her.
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What book spent the longest at number 1?

The 10 longest sales streaks at No. 1 in Amazon history
  • The Help. ...
  • The Lost Symbol. ...
  • Becoming. ...
  • The Da Vinci Code. ...
  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. ...
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. ...
  • A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose. ...
  • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
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What book has been on The New York Times bestseller list the longest?

Aside from “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” (667 weeks on the series list) and its neighbor, “Harry Potter” (666 weeks), these are among the longest-running tenants across all charts.
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Which book holds the Guinness world record for the fastest selling book of fiction in 24 hours immersive reader?

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is also the Fastest-selling fiction book in 24 hours, shifting 8.3 million copies (or 345,833 books per hour) on its day of release in the USA, from 00:01 a.m. on 21 July 2007.
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How many words is Harry Potter?

The entire Harry Potter series – 1,084,170 words.
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