Top Ten Tuesday – Top 10 Books I Can’t Believe I Read
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Top Ten Tuesday has been one of my favorite memes ever since I started blogging, so huge thanks to Jana for taking over the hosting duties!
This week’s TTT topic is Top Ten Books I Can’t Believe I Read. I imagine there are lots of different ways I could explore this topic, but looking around at my bookshelves, I’m going to go with ‘I can’t believe I read these…because they’re literally the size and weight of bricks!‘ That’s not to say they were bad reads — most of them were incredible and didn’t feel like they were anywhere near as long as they actually were, but there were a couple (I’m looking at you, Moby Dick!) that I thought I would never finish.
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TOP 10 BOOKS I CAN’T BELIEVE I READ
1. LES MISERABLES by Victor Hugo (1,463 pages)
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2. A STORM OF SWORDS by George R.R. Martin (1,177 pages)
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3. BLEAK HOUSE by Charles Dickens (1,017 pages)
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4. MOBY DICK by Herman Melville
(728 Pages, but felt like it was about 3,000 pages. Way too many chapters about whale blubber for my liking!)
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5. JOHN ADAMS by David McCullough
(751 pages – I don’t even usually read Nonfiction, much less over 700 pages of it, but this was riveting!)
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6. GONE WITH THE WIND by Margaret Mitchell
(1,037 pages – As much as I complain about romance, I still can’t believe I read and adored this one, lol.)
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8. MIDDLEMARCH by George Eliot (904 pages)
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9. THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1,072 pages)
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10. ANNA KARENINA by Leo Tolstoy (1,008 pages)
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