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

[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.

[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?

[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

[TsUNaMy WaVe]

For me, it's Gödel, Escher, Bach. Non-fiction, very interesting read.
The original English version is ~206,000 words. I read the Hebrew version but I believe it's probably around the same count.

Edit:
After reading @(you need an account to see links) comment I checked and it looks like HP5 has more words, so I guess this is the longest I've ever read. But it's weird?? I guess since GEB is non-fiction, it felt harder while reading it, unlike the easy-to-read HP.