List of longest novels
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List of longest novels

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Book title	Author	Edition/publisher	Page count	Volumes	Page size	Word count	Language	Notes

Les Hommes de Bonne Volonté	Jules Romains	Paris: Calmann Lévy	7,892	27	2,070,000	French	English title: Men of Good Will

Artamène ou le Grand Cyrus	Georges and/or Madeleine de Scudéry	Augustin Courbé, 1649–53	13,095	10	1,954,300	French

Het Bureau	J. J. Voskuil	Van Oorschot, 1996-2000	5,058	7	7.85 inches (19.9 cm) x 4.95 inches (12.6 cm)	1,590,000	Dutch

Venmurasu	Jeyamohan	Narrinai/Kizhakku	11,159	13	8.25 inches (21.0 cm) x 5.85 inches (14.9 cm)	1,556,028 (as of August 9, 2016)	Tamil	Ongoing novel based on Mahabaratham - written so far 15 volumes and 13 published as books. However according to the article, at least 15 volumes have now been published, so the given figures are probably out of date.

Gordana	Marija Jurić Zagorka	Školska knjiga, 2007	8,768	12	1,400,000 (estimated)	Croatian	The longest Croatian novel.

À la recherche du temps perdu	Marcel Proust	Gallimard (Collection Folio edition, 1988–1990)	3,031	7	7 inches (17.8 cm) x 5 inches (12.7 cm)	1,267,069	French	Guinness World Record holder for longest novel. Uses estimated character count of 9,609,000 characters.

Zettels Traum	Arno Schmidt	Suhrkamp Verlag (2010 edition)	1,536	1	14.1 inches (35.8 cm) x 10.8 inches (27.4 cm)	1,100,000 (estimated)	German	6,800,000 characters; longest novel published in one volume

A Dance to the Music of Time	Anthony Powell	?	12	1,000,000	English

Kelidar	Mahmoud Dowlatabadi	Farhang Moaaser	2,836	10	950,000	Persian	The longest Persian novel

Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady	Samuel Richardson	Penguin Classics (1986)	1,534	7	9.2 inches (23.4 cm) x 5.8 inches (14.7 cm)	943,000 and 984,870	English	Word count obtained through Project Gutenberg digitization and 1964 estimate by The New York Times

Ponniyin Selvan	Kalki Krishnamurthy	(1950 edition)	2,400	5	900,000	Tamil	Released in five volumes, this historical novel, originally written in Tamil, tells the story of Arulmozhivarman (Raja Raja Chola I), one of the kings of the Chola Dynasty

Poor Fellow My Country	Xavier Herbert	HarperCollins Publishers (Australia)	1,466 hardcover	1	8.1 inches (20.6 cm) x 5.6 inches (14.2 cm)	852,000	English	1975 winner of the Miles Franklin Award

Women and Men	Joseph McElroy	Knopf (1987)	1,192 hardcover	1	9 inches (22.9 cm) x 6 inches (15.2 cm)	850,000 (estimated) 700,000 (estimated)	English

Dream of the Red Chamber (紅樓夢)	Cao Xueqin	Penguin Classics	2,339	1	7.75 inches (19.7 cm) x 5 inches (13 cm)	845,000 (estimated)	Chinese to English translation

Sironia, Texas	Madison Cooper	Houghton Mifflin (1952)	1,731	2	840,000 (estimated)	English

Romance of the Three Kingdoms (三國演義)	Luo Guanzhong	Foreign Languages Press (1995)	2,340	4	7.2 inches (18.3 cm) x 4.5 inches (11.4 cm)	800,000 (estimate)	Chinese to English translation

Miss MacIntosh, My Darling	Marguerite Young	Scribners (1965)	1,198	1	750,000 (estimated) 576,000 (estimated)	English

Sir Charles Grandison	Samuel Richardson	Oxford World's Classics (1986)	1,647	1	7.2 inches (18.3 cm) x 4.6 inches (11.7 cm)	750,000 (estimated)	English

Varney the Vampire	James Malcolm Rymer and Thomas Peckett Prest	Edward Lloyd (1845–47)	866	1	667,000	English	Originally published anonymously, in serial "penny dreadful" pamphlets. Present-day opinions are divided regarding its authorship.

Les Misérables	Victor Hugo	Signet Classics edition	1,462	1	655,478	French

Atlas Shrugged	Ayn Rand	Signet Books (1996 edition)	1,088 paperback	1	6.9 inches (17.5 cm) x 4.1 inches (10.4 cm)	645,000 (estimate by the publisher and by The New York Times and by the author herself quoting printer's word count)	English

Jean-Christophe	Romain Rolland	Henry Holt (1910,1911,1913)	1,666	3	610,000 (estimated)	French to English translation	Author received the 1915 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Jerusalem	Alan Moore	Knockabout (2016)	1,266	1	9.6 inches (24.4 cm) x 6.6 inches (16.8 cm)	600,000 (estimated)	English

"...And Ladies of the Club"	Helen Hooven Santmyer	Ohio State University Press (1982)	1,344	1	600,000 (newspaper estimate)	English	1984 surprise bestseller

A Suitable Boy	Vikram Seth	Penguin Books	1,368 paperback	1	8 inches (20.3 cm) x 5.5 inches (14 cm)	593,674	English	Word count obtained from Amazon digitization (eBook) word count.

Война и мир (War and Peace)	Leo Tolstoy	Oxford World's Classics	1,440 paperback	1	7.6 inches (19.3 cm) x 5.1 inches (13.0 cm)	587,287 New American Library Version and 561,093 Oxford World's Classics	Russian to English translation	Edition and translation largely account for differences in word count.

F. L. Věk	Alois Jirásek	Československý spisovatel (last printed edition, 1976–1977)	1,870 (1972 ed.)	1	571,350	Czech	Word count obtained from 2011 eBook.

Il mulino del Po	Riccardo Bacchelli	Arnoldo Mondadori Editore	2,113 paperback	1	8 inches (20.3 cm) x 5.4 inches (13.7 cm)	559,830	Italian

Infinite Jest	David Foster Wallace	Back Bay Books	1,104 paperback	1	9.2 inches (23.4 cm) x 6 inches (15.2 cm)	543,709	English

Remembrance Rock	Carl Sandburg	Mariner Books	1,088 paperback	1	9 inches (22.9 cm) x 6 inches (15.2 cm)	532,030 and 673,000	English	Word counts obtained from Amazon digitization (eBook) word count, and author's own count.

To Green Angel Tower	Tad Williams	DAW Books	1,083 hardcover	1	520,000	English	Word counts obtained from Amazon digitization (eBook) word count.

Anniversaries. From the Life of Gesine Cresspahl	Uwe Johnson	Mariner Books (Vol. 1), Harcourt (Vol. 2)	1,156 (Leila Vennewitz translation) or 1,720 (Damion Searls translation)	2	510,638	German	Word count obtained from eBook digitization of (abridged) Vennewitz translation.

Horcynus Orca	Stefano D'Arrigo	Arnoldo Mondadori Editore	1,257 hardcover	1	8.2 inches (20.8 cm) x 5.6 inches (14.2 cm)	508,751	Italian

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To Green Angel Tower is one of the longest novels, consisting of 520,000 words.

final_sentence: To Green Angel Tower is one of the longest novels, consisting of 520,000 words.