What's the longest book ever?

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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How many pages is the longest book ever written?

The Blah Story by Nigel Tomm 11 million words 7312 pages
  • 11 million words. 7312 pages. The Blah Story. ...
  • 7312 pages. The Blah Story. “Overwhelmingly creative, Nigel Tomm demolishes the barrier of words and meaning, giving vitality and expressive strength to the pattern of his most exclusive novel – The Blah Story.
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What is one of the longest books to read?

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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What is the longest book in the world 2021?

According to The Guinness Book of World Records Marcel Proust's elephantine Remembrance of Things Past is the longest book in the world. It has 9,609,000 characters including spaces.
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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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How many words are in Harry Potter?

The entire Harry Potter series – 1,084,170 words.
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What books are 2000 pages?

2000 Pages Books
  • The Complete Wizard of Oz Collection: All 22 Stories With Active Table of Contents (Kindle Edition) ...
  • NIV Life Application Study Bible, Third Edition (Kindle Edition) ...
  • Life Application Study Bible: NIV (Leather Bound) ...
  • The Charles F. ...
  • Mosby's Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing & Health Professions (Hardcover)
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What is longest novel ever written?

Over the years, there has been some controversy over what constitutes the world's longest novel. 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 the shortest book?

“Baby Shoes” by Hemingway

This is 20th-century American author Ernest Hemingway's famous six-word story.
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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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Which is the longest Harry Potter book?

The fifth novel, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, is the longest book in the series, yet it is the second shortest film at 2 hours 18 minutes.
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Is the Bible the longest book in the world?

The longest book in the Authorised version of the Bible is the Book of Psalms, while the longest book including prose is the Book of the Prophet Isaiah, with 66 chapters.
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How many words is the longest Harry Potter book?

The last book Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows has 198,227 words. This brings the total Harry Potter word count to a whooping 1,084,170 words. Wow – that's a lot of words, isn't it? The word count gets progressively longer for books 1 to 5.
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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 is the thickest book?

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 most difficult book to read?

The 10 Most Difficult Books You'll Ever Read
  • Finnegans Wake by James Joyce.
  • Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
  • The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner.
  • Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs.
  • War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy.
  • Sophie's Choice by William Styron.
  • Moby Dick by Herman Melville.
  • The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro.
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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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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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Can a book be 10000 words?

If you're writing your first novel, the general rule of thumb for novel writing is a word count in the 80,000 to 100,000 range. While anything over 40,000 words can fall into the novel category, 50,000 is considered the minimum novel length.
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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 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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How many pages is 80000 words?

Using the novel example of 90,000 words, that breaks down to about 320 pages. An 80,000 word non-fiction book works out to about 350 pages.
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How many book pages is 100 000 words?

100,000 words is 200 pages single-spaced or 400 pages double-spaced. Typical documents that are 100,000 words or more include full-length novels.
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What is the most famous line in Harry Potter?

Explanation: Even though it's just one word, “always” is largely considered one of the most iconic lines from the Potter series.
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