Engaging long novels you can't miss to read

How many times have you turned away from a book, frightened by its sheer size? Understandably, the thought of squeezing two to three reads in that time dissuades you from picking it up. But not all long reads are worth skipping. We bring you a few long novels that will be worth your time...

IQ84 follows into the world of Tengo and Aomame and is a complete package of romance, mystery and fantasy. It became a sensation on its release, selling over million copies within a month.
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J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy is an epic fantasy masterpiece of all times. Frodo Baggins embarks on a journey to destroy One Ring. This ring is the ultimate weapon to conquer and rule the middle earth and before it reaches the Dark Lord, Sauron, they have to take the Ring to Morder - the only place where it can be destroyed. Lord of the Rings continues to be an inspiration to all movies, music, books, artwork and video games.
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Anna Karenina recounts the story of unhappily married Anna Karenina and her affair with Count Vronsky in the late 19th-century feudal Russian society. The novel explores a diverse range of topics that existed in Russia at the time—politics, characters and families, religion, morality, gender and social class. The novel is considered one of the greatest books ever written.
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A Little Life is about four classmates making their way to New York. One of them is haunted by a childhood trauma that he'll not be able to overcome but will define his life forever. It became an instant bestseller and was shortlisted for Man Booker Award for Fiction.
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One of the most popular and celebrated movies of all time. Margaret Mitchell's only novel became an epic of love and war set during the American civil war. Gone with the Wind creates scenes and portrait of characters so vivid that they simply become unforgettable for the reader.
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The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2014. The Goldfinch is about the adventures of Theo Decker, who survives a terrorist bomb attack at an art museum but kills his mother. He escapes the massacre with the Dutch masterpiece - the painting of The Goldfinch and lands into a pool of experiences in life. He's drawn into the world of rich, an antique store owner and underworld of art only to contemplate the message behind the painting that also summarizes his life so far.
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The book centers around tennis academy and nearby substance abuse recovery center. Touches on a number of topics and explores questions about entertainment, desire and pleasure. The book has sold over a million copies and in 2005, it was included in Time Magazine's list of 100 English written novels since 1923.
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The Luminaries follow Walter Moody who travels to New Zealand goldfields to make his fortune. Instead, he stumbles into an intense meeting of 12 local men discussing a series of unexplained events and soon they draw him to the complex mystery. A brilliantly constructed, fiendishly clever ghost story and a gripping page-turner. The author won the Man Booker Prize in 2013 for the book.
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This book is inspired from a real-life incident of wrongful imprisonment. The plot: Edmond Dantes is imprisoned for a crime which he hasn't committed. He gets to know about the hidden treasure on Isle of Monte Cristo. He decides to escape, unearth the treasure, and use it for destructing the three men who were responsible for his wrongful imprisonment. The book was hugely popular after it was serialised for the first time in the 1840s.
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Mission Earth is the tenth book in the series which is written by L. Ron Hubbard, the father of the Church of Scientology. A monumental work of 1.2 million words, this 10-volume series (dekalogy) blends science fiction and action. According to Wikipedia, 'in 1991 the town of Dalton, Georgia attempted to remove the Mission Earth books from its public library, citing what was described as "repeated passages involving chronic masochism, child abuse, homosexuality, necromancy, bloody murder, and other things that are anti-social, perverted, and anti-everything."' But this was a failed attempt, and each book in this series was a bestseller.
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Contrary to Adolf Hitler's autobiography Mein Kampf, this is series of six autobiographical books by Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgård. gained fame for its notoreity and honest depiction of the author's personal life. The six books were published between 2009 to 2011. Over half a million copies have been sold in Norway so far.
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Atlas Shrugged is the story of several business leaders who are constantly struggling with a government that invokes communistic laws on poor economic principles that threaten productivity. The book explores philosophical themes.
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Proust's seven-volume series is about Proust's own life. The novel recounts the experiences of the Narrator (who is never named) while he is growing up, learning about art, participating in society, and falling in love. The book was originally written in French and was titled 'À la recherche du temps perdu'. Transalted as 'In Search of Lost Time' it was earlier translated as Remembrance of Things Past and was published between 1913-1927. It is considered to be one of the most influential books of 20th-century literature.
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