Flex Time. What's the longest (single) book you've ever read?

[carrottea]

You can go by page count or word count!

For me, I think it was Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch @ 297,680 words.

[kittyray]

I'm pretty sure The Goldfinch is mine as well, but I've never tracked it carefully!

[Mario2302]

to be honest i absolutely have no clue, probably one of my science books that's about 1,5 A4 pages a page with mighty thin pages and a font so small you almost need a magnification glass to read it.
no page count and certainly no word count that can attest it though

[carrottea]

to be honest i absolutely have no clue, probably one of my science books that's about 1,5 A4 pages a page with mighty thin pages and a font so small you almost need a magnification glass to read it.
no page count and certainly no word count that can attest it though

Dang! That's fair. What specific flavor of science are we talking here?

[Ariealle]

I'd sadly have to say Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and I did have to google now which book had the most words.

[Alister]

Probably The Great Book of Amber by Roger Zelazny, 1,264 pages and an estimated 316k words.

[Mario2302]

biology as that's the only ones i was interested into enough to actually read completely although i didn't have to for my studies. some of them i've actually reread after my studies too (i'm crazy, i know :p)
Do also have some on chemistry, geology and physics.

[carrottea]

Ooh, did you read the classics, Lehninger, Alberts, etc.?

[Mario2302]

well both names are ringing loud bells but to be sure i'd have to go up to the study (it's been a while i've had time to go through them honestly :p)
quite sure i have alberts molecular biology of the cell there, not so sure about lehniger so potentially i don't have that one myself but looking up a bit i'm at least sure i've read that one too

[nousha]

well both names are ringing loud bells but to be sure i'd have to go up to the study (it's been a while i've had time to go through them honestly :p)
quite sure i have alberts molecular biology of the cell there, not so sure about lehniger so potentially i don't have that one myself but looking up a bit i'm at least sure i've read that one too

It may well be the longest book I've ever read, Molecular Biology of the Cell, Alberts et all., I have the fourth edition but while preparing for my molecular biology exam in the uni, I've also read "Molecular Cell Biology" (Lodish et all.) that was, at the time, available for free in NCBI, if I'm not mistaken. They took it down a few years ago.
I have no idea how many words those are

Maybe the longest fiction book I've read is The Lord of the Rings (it got published as one book in my country, comprising the three parts).

And because GEB was mentioned, fun fact, I met my husband because of this book I still have it, still haven't read it through. He has