The memory map with the madeleine, for which booksellers across the world have endured decades of bibliographic anxiety due to the number of sets where one volume is OP (out of print).Ĩ. Scott Moncrieff, reworked by Terence Kilmartin, revised by D J Enright): 4211 pages in the slipcase six pack À la Recherche du Temps Perdu or Remembrance of Things Past. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust (translated by C. In which a hot-headed southern belle reconstructs her life after the American Civil War with a ruthlessness that could only be pre-feminist.ħ. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: 1472 pages Through which the names Scarlett and Rhett were permanently forged into the western cultural psyche. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt: 771 pages In which a New Yorker with post-traumatic stress disorder and addiction problems is haunted by a theft. A Tolkien-esque fantasy, in which a grand cast of outlaws, priests, soldiers, skin-changers, nobles and slaves all cop their whack. Martin: 1040 pages Marginally shorter than A Storm of Swords (Book 3). A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice & Fire, Book 5) by George R.
A novel of unparalleled depth and style, in which a rebellious wife renounces Russian respectability for an affair with a younger man.Ĥ. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (translated by Louise Shanks Maude and Aylmer Maude): 992 pages One of Catton’s major reads. 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami: 1084 pages In which a gym instructor who avenges victims of domestic violence descends into an oddball parallel universe featuring a moon-struck maths tutor. Given 12/10 by more than one New Zealand bookstore and short-listed for the 2013 Man Booker, it’s an ingenious work uncontaminated by regional noir. The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton: 832 Pages In which an 1860s opiated gold rush mystery (featuring a dozen conflicts of interest) is stage directed over 800 astrologically predetermined pages to a fitting climax in Hokitika. We asked Tilly Lloyd of Unity Books Wellington to lend us her considerable reading expertise and give us her recommendations for the best doorstoppers, so you know where to turn when you've finished Eleanor Catton’s Man Booker short-listed novel, The Luminaries.ġ. There's a lot of talk about the rise of the long, long novel.
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