2025 Five Books Over Five Hundred Pages

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34 participants (108 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

We're doing it guys. Five whole books over 500 pages long. Pick some books you'll actually enjoy getting through. Your time is worth more than suffering through 500+ pages of torture. 

Challenge Books

All books added
The Dagger and the Flame by Catherine Doyle

The Dagger and the Flame

The City of Fantome #1

Catherine Doyle

13 hours, 23 minutes • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction fantasy romance young adult adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced
The Hourglass Factory by Lucy Ribchester

The Hourglass Factory

Lucy Ribchester

504 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

fiction historical mystery dark mysterious reflective medium-paced
The Burning God by R.F. Kuang

The Burning God

The Poppy War #3

R.F. Kuang

23 hours, 46 minutes • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction fantasy historical dark emotional tense medium-paced
Homecoming by Kate Morton

Homecoming

Kate Morton

628 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction contemporary historical mystery emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced
The Shadow of What Was Lost by James Islington

The Shadow of What Was Lost

The Licanius Trilogy #1

James Islington

693 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

fiction fantasy adventurous mysterious medium-paced
Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee

Free Food for Millionaires

Min Jin Lee

646 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

fiction contemporary literary emotional reflective medium-paced
At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson

At Home: A Short History of Private Life

Bill Bryson

700 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging funny informative slow-paced
The Empty Grave by Jonathan Stroud

The Empty Grave

Lockwood & Co. #5

Jonathan Stroud

548 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

fiction fantasy mystery young adult adventurous mysterious fast-paced
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Susanna Clarke

846 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

fiction fantasy historical adventurous mysterious slow-paced
Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay

Tigana

Guy Gavriel Kay

793 pages • first pub 1990 (editions)

fiction fantasy adventurous emotional reflective slow-paced