Great Long Books

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  • War & Peace - Leo Tolstoy

    You gotta commit, but it's worth it. Get through the first ~100 pages, where he's setting it all in motion, and you'll be rewarded with the greatest read of all time. It didn't get its reputation for nothing.

  • Wolf Hall, Bring up The Bodies & The Mirror and the Light - Hillary Mantel

    Do not start these if you have anything important that needs your attention in the next month or so.

  • A Place of Greater Safety - Hillary Mantel

    Her debut, probably not as good technically as the wolf hall trilogy, but I enjoyed it even more. Maybe more appealing because the characters are younger, living more intensely than Cromwell? Have re-read multiple times. Genuinely detracted from my studies, could not pull myself away from it.