What is the thickest book ever written?

The thickest book published is 496 mm (19.5 in) and was achieved by Gyanjivandasji Swami (India) in Gujarat, India, on 2 February 2020. The book is entitled 'Shree Haricharitramrut Sagar' and is a biography of Bhagwan Shree Swaminarayan.
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What is the thickest book of all time?

A book with a collection of all of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple stories is recognised by the Guinness World Records as the thickest book published. More than a foot thick, the 4,032-pages book weighs 8.04kg, and has 12 novels and 20 short stories.
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What is the largest book ever printed?

The record for the largest published book is one edition of 'The Little Prince' measuring 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) high and 3.08 m (10 ft 1 in) wide when open, and containing 128 pages. It is edited by Eidouro Gráfica e Editora Ltda.
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What classic book is the longest?

Here is a list of the 10 longest novels in Penguin Classics and Penguin Modern Classics to whet your appetite...
  • In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust (3,408 pages, 6 volumes)
  • The Story of the Stone, Cao Xueqin (2,576 pages, 5 volumes)
  • Les Misérables, Victor Hugo (1,456 pages)
  • War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy (1,440 pages)
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What is the shortest book?

“Baby Shoes” by Hemingway

This is 20th-century American author Ernest Hemingway's famous six-word story. You've probably heard of it. On a bet, at some point in his career, Hemingway is said to have written the words: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”
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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 there a book with a million words?

Watchmen writer Alan Moore has completed work on the first draft of an epic novel that has now spiraled into an enormous story totaling over one million words. For context, that's more than two Lord of the Rings, or about as long as the first three Song of Ice and Fire novels.
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What is the longest name in the world?

The longest personal name is 747 characters long, and belongs to Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr. (b. 4 August 1914, Germany) who passed away on 24 October 1997, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA, as verified on 1 January 2021.
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How many pages is the Bible?

Using a standard font, the average bible has around 1,200 pages. As a book, the bible is as thick as “The Lord of the Rings” and similar fantasy novel epics. The difference is that the bible contains history and philosophy, and can be used for spiritual guidance.
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How heavy is the heaviest book?

The largest book in the world measures 13.71 by 12.36 feet and weighs more than 1.2 tons, spokesperson Sara Wilcox said. The only copy was completed in Hungary on March 21, 2010. The largest book measures 4.18 m x 3.77 m (13.71 x 12.36 ft), weighs 1,420 kg (3,130 lb 9 oz) and consists of 346 pages.
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How many words is the longest book?

The Blah Story by Nigel Tomm (3,277,227 words)

The Blah Story is the longest book ever written published in 23 volumes.
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What is the most popular book in the world?

The most read book in the world is the Bible. Writer James Chapman created a list of the most read books in the world based on the number of copies each book sold over the last 50 years. He found that the Bible far outsold any other book, with a whopping 3.9 billion copies sold over the last 50 years.
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How thick is War and Peace?

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 is the hardest Harry Potter book to read?

Readers caught up to the book's difficulty. The hardest of the books to read is the fourth: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. This book is at a reading level of 9.2, and in it, Harry is in the equivalent to 9th grade.
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What's the most books anyone has ever read?

What Are the Most Read Books in the World of All Time?
  • The Holy Bible.
  • The Holy Quran.
  • The Harry Potter Series: J.K. Rowling.
  • The Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse Tung.
  • The Lord of the Rings.
  • The Alchemist.
  • The Diary of Anne Frank: Anne Frank.
  • The Twilight SagA: Stephenie Meyer.
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What is the weirdest child name?

Weird unisex baby names
  • Xela. ...
  • Geo. ...
  • Moxie Crimefighter. ...
  • Sparrow Midnight. ...
  • Seven. ...
  • Moroccan. ...
  • Everest. Want a name that can move mountains? ...
  • 100. Rocket.
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What's the most rarest name?

Both Dua and Lipa made the cut. You can learn a lot about what's going on in the world based on what people are naming their babies.
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How many words are in Harry Potter?

The entire Harry Potter series – 1,084,170 words.
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How many pages is the longest Harry Potter book?

The longest Harry Potter book of all the books (both the original series and the spin-offs) is Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, with 870 pages in the American hardback edition.
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What book has the most AR points in the world?

The book that offers the most AR points is “War and Peace” by Leo Tolstoy, which offers a total of 118 points. AR points refer to the Accelerated Reader program for primary and secondary schools, which was created by Renaissance Learning, Inc. Books are assigned points based on their length and level of difficulty.
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Can a book have 1000 pages?

Technically, some parts of this list are actually a series of books with over 1000 pages each and, yes, there are a few that are just short of that 1000 mark, but, they are all worth taking a look at for those looking to add to that reading list or are going through withdrawals after finishing that last 1000 page novel ...
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What book has the most letters?

A la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust contains an estimated 9,609,000 characters (each letter counts as one character.
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What is a very long book called?

A tome or codex is a large book, especially one volume of a multi-volume scholarly work.
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