- Longest book: Shuggie Bain (480 pages) - Longest audiobook: The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcom X (18 hours, equivalent to 640 pages) - Best book: Everyone in this Room will Someday be Dead

Longest is Shogūn part one. Favorite is Poor Things.

Best and longest, in a dead heat: Lonesome Dove & Wolf Hall I know, I know...I got to the party late, but holy moly, it was still raging, in both cases. I'm thinking of making an actual shelf (and a goodreads one) labeled Everybody Was Right

That’s funny 😁

Longest: THESE truths by Jill Lepore Favorite of 2024 so far: Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda

A strangeness in my mind - Orhan Pamuk. Around 600 pages.

Longest: 11/22/63 (but I have read ten or so books that were 700+ pages) Best: 11/22/63 or Skippy Dies

Not a single book but I read all of soul Eater. Considering the anime ended so dissappintedly, getting the proper ending. It truly was so much more satisfying than the show.

Best and longest have been the same - Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Longest: 11/22/63 by Stephen King Best: either 11/22/63 or The Ferryman by Justin Cronin I’ve been underwhelmed by a lot of the other books I’ve read so far this year, so these two stand out.

I read the first book in the Wheel of Time series. It took me a month cause I just struggled with it. The best book I’ve read was probably Radium Girls. Few books have pissed me off as much as that one did but I’m so glad I read it

Letting Go by David R Hawkins

A Little Life for longest

Longest so far is Streets of Laredo by Larry McMurtry the best is either that one or James by Percival Everett.

Longest: The Fireman - Joe Hill (768 pg) Best: Either The Fireman or The Mirror & the Light (759 pg)

In the final quarter, but my longest is The Count of Monte Cristo (1276 pages) by Alexandre Dumas. My best would probably be Jade War by Fonda Lee.

Longest this year so far is 11/22/63 by King. Best read so far is a toss between the above, Schindler's Ark or Arcadia by Iain Pears.

Longest: 11/22/63 which is 849 pages. Best is really hard to choose, but I’m going with Flowers for Algeron by Daniel Keyes.

without thinking about it too much, this is one book for me for both categories. best and longest: Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

Longest: The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas Best Fiction: The Library at Mount Char, by Scott Hawkins (tied with Count to Monte Cristo) Best Non fiction: Say Nothing, by Patrick Radden Keefe

Longest: A little life Best: The Secret History of

Longest: The Stand Best: Piranesi 2nd Longest: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrel. That would have had some nice symmetry to it!

Best: The Iliad. Longest: It.

Best: The Picture of Dorian Gray Longest: The Name of the Wind

I am in the middle of "Joseph and His Brothers" by Thomas Mann, it is 1492 pages long and I am around page 400. The best book really depends...I liked "The Fixer" by Bernard Malmud, but it certainly wasn't a happy book.

Best: Brotherless Night Longest: Catch-22

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry I'd wish it never ended.

Best: Endurance, Shackleton adventure Longest: Brothers of Karamazov

Did you read the new translation of Brothers? I think it came out late last year…

I read the translation from David McDuff

Yeah that’s the one. What’d you think?

longest: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. probably. best: Room by Emma Donoghue. too many options tho

Room was so good!

So far the best book I’ve read this year is The hunger games, and the longest is Catching Fire, but I haven’t had enough time to read as much as I would like

Longest was The Name of the Wind favourite was The Death of Ivan Ilyich or The Hobbit

Technically the longest: A Court of Silver Flames (Sarah J. Maas) 751p *Felt* the longest/took longest to read: The Secret History (Donna Tartt) 629p Favourite book: In Memoriam (Alice Winn)

Longest: The Women by Kristin Hannah (480 pages) Best: The Believer: A Year in Fly Fishing by David Coggins (224 pages)

Longest - The Rising trilogy omnibus by Mira Grant. 1,151 pages. Best- The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins and The Winter King by C L Wilson. New author discovered this year - Karen Rose(Detective/Crime + Romance).

The best was The Gameshouse by Claire North. The longest have been all the Stormlight Archive books (on the last one now).

Longest = Oathbringer. In fact, the top four longest belong to Sanderson's Stormlight Archives books. All very good. Best = I am torn between The Forgetting Moon by Brian Lee Durfee and Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

The best: The Will of the Many The longest: An Echo of Things to Come

Longest (and best): “My Effin’ Life” by Geddy Lee Fairly new to the depths of Rush and this memoir made me laugh, cry, and kick myself for never making it to a show.

Best: In Memoriam by Alice Winn Longest: Trials of Empire by Richard Swan

Longest for sure it time to read and possibly in pages The Brothers Karamazov. It was worth it. Best is so hard to say. I’ve read The Great Gatsby three times so maybe that’s my favorite.

Same answer for both. **We, The Drowned** by Carsten Jenkins

Longest: Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (960 pages) Best: Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

Longest: Babel Best: Babel

Longest: A Gentleman in Moscow Best: The Five Love Languages

Longest - It by Stephen King @ 1168 pgs Best - Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Longest: technically Tomie, but for normal books Babel. Best: either The Princess Bride or Killers of the Flower Moon.

Longest AND best: Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

Best: “Briefly, a Delicious Life” or “The Devil and Mrs. Davenport” Longest: “The Covenant of Water” - 31 hours/ 724 pages

Literally just got done with “The Family Across the Street” which is the best book I’ve read this year. Very original and an adrenaline rush the entire time. Also very heartfelt

Best - The Picture of Dorian Grey Longest (so far) - The Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah

Oathbreaker- Brandon Sanderson

Longest was probably **"Shogun"** by James Clavell (about 1300 pages) The best is a hard one... read so many great books this year. But possibly **"Demon Copperhead"** by Barbara Kingsolver

Damn bro ... it might be very interesting which made you read 1300 pages.

Longest: The Stand by Stephen King Best: Harry Potter #5 or Drawing of the Three

I will split by fiction and non-fiction. Fiction: Longest - Anna Karenina Best - Anna Karenina Non-fiction: Longest - The Making of the Atomic Bomb Best - The Making of the Atomic Bomb I did not realize that each was both the longest and best until I looked. 

I think my longest was house of flame and shadow by sarah j maas haha Fav I'm gonna say was a novella called the patient by jasper dewitt

Longest would be The Women by Kristin Hannah, 480 pages. The best would be A Thousand Splendid Suns by Hosseini, 372 pages. I thought I typically read a lot of short 200-300 page books, but when reviewing my Goodreads account I see I actually read quite a few 350-400 page books this year!

Damn A thousand splendid suns by hosseini is just next level.. I loved it till it's first part.. the second one started to get boring.. but it's actually the best of the bestest books i have ever read.

the best happens to be the longest The Way of Kings and Words of Radiance is already on its way of being even better

Happy cake day!

thank you!

Longest: Technically Dan Simmons’s “The Terror,” though I listened to this as an audiobook. The longest physical book I read this year was “Katherine” by Anya Seton. Best: “The Vaster Wilds” by Lauren Groff

Longest: Middlemarch Best: hard to choose but not Middlemarch lol

Longest~ Whalebone Theater Having a hard time deciding the best.