First thing: I've decided that I'm only going to post one of the two days on the weekend. This week it was Saturday; next it might be Sunday. How does that sound?
Yay! Incredibly long book time. The Vortexavian mentioned in Five Phenomenal Words and I are reading War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, an absolute cinderblock that passes for a book. Shockingly, it's not alone. It's not even the king of cinderblocks. The numerical ranking of these are disputable; different versions have different page counts. I've cross-referenced something like five sources, and the page number is just the approximate word count divided by 400.
11. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo: 530,000 Words, ~1,325 pages
10. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy: 570,000 Words, ~1,425 pages
9. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace: 575,000 Words, ~1,437.5 pages
8. A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth: 590,000 Words, ~1,475 pages
7. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand: 645,000 Words, ~1,612.5 pages
6. The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil: 650,000 Words, ~1,625 pages
5. Women and Men by Joseph McElroy: 700,000 Words, ~1,750 pages
4. Poor Fellow My Country by Xavier Herbert: 850,000 Words, ~2,125 pages
3. Clarissa by Samuel Richardson: 1,000,000+ Words, 2,500+ pages
2. Mission Earth by L. Ron Hubbard: ~1,200,000 Words, ~3,000 pages
1. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust: ~1,500,000 Words, ~3750 pages (more like 4,100).
I believe Joseph and His Brothers by Thomas Mann belongs somewhere between numbers 4 and 7, but I couldn't find a Word Count. Also, Mission Earth was published in volumes, but it was meant as one huge novel, hence its inclusion.
Other ones you'd expect are on here but aren't: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas (445,000 Words), Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell (424,000 Words), Shogun by James Clavell, The Stand by Stephen King.
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