The Longest Books on my TBR 📚 now with #tometopple TBR!

Hello fellow bookworms 📚 I have been wanting to talk about all the tomes collecting dust on my shelves for a while now! I’m trying to do better this year and actually read some 500+ paged books 😄 I keep reading shorter books because tackling a tome seems a bit daunting, especially when I’m busy with school work. At the same time, some of these books have been on my TBR for so long and I hope to get around to reading them! Today I’m sharing the Longest Books on my TBR (over 600+ pages) with you 💕 All covers link back to Goodreads and I have grouped series together! It goes from longest to shortest books (in case of series the books with the most pages counts) 📚 This post was inspired by the teaser of the Tome Topple Readathon (all about reading long books)! I don’t know if I’ll be able to participate, as there hasn’t been an announcement yet but it prompted me to check out what my options would be 👀

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— Tome Topple (@Tome_Topple) March 3, 2022

📚Update: Tome Topple TBR! 📚

• Strange the Dreamer (Laini Taylor) 📖 544 pages 📖 Tome that was published before 2018
• A Gathering of Shadows (V.E. Schwab) 📖 512 pages 📖 Tome in a series you haven’t read for a while
• A Conjuring of Light (V.E. Schwab) 📖 624 pages 📖 A sequel tome

➽ The next Tome Topple Round was just announced after I posted this, so here is my updated TBR (these are all books I’ll be reading for the Magical Readathon as well)!! The Readathon takes place from April 15th-28th, but I might be using the entire month of April to read these tomes. My internship starts on the 19th, so I don’t know what my reading will look like at the end of the month! Make sure to check out the announcement video, as there are a few different prompts to choose from this month 💕

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norell (Susanna Clarke)

📖 1006 pages 📖

➽ This book is SO daunting and intimidatingly long 😥 I kept going back and forth on if I wanted to read it, because a THOUSAND pages is so long, I have never read a book this long! Nevertheless, I am intrigued by the concept of this and it has come much recommended by people calling it a writing masterpiece 👀 The author also seems to be very much beloved, as there was also hype for her other book ‘Piranesi’ when it came out. I know it’ll take me long to get through this book, so I’m not yet sure when I’ll attempt to read it, but my interest is definitely piqued!

Lightbringer Series (Brent Weeks)

• 3.) The Broken Eye 📖 846 pages
• 4.) The Blood Mirror 📖 682 pages
• 5.) The Burning White 📖 992 pages

➽ Another massive Epic Fantasy series that I love but the books are SO long 😅 I loved the first two books and I read both of them in 2017 (they were instant favorites), but haven’t had the motivation to continue the series, not even when the last book finally came out 🙈 The worldbuilding is phenomenal and the writing is great though, but there are so many characters and politics (the glossary is huge as well) that I need all my brain cells in order to read the books 😄 I hope to tackle at least the third book soonish, because I have moved twice since starting the series and keep logging the books around with me 😂

Sarah J. Maas’ Series (Crescent City & ACOTAR)

• House of Earth and Blood (Crescent City #1) 📖 803 pages
• ACOWAR (ACOTAR #3) 📖 704 pages

➽ I’m not anywhere near up to date with SJM’s books. I keep talking about how I still haven’t picked up ACOWAR because I waited too long and didn’t read it when I was super into the series, so now it keeps sitting on my shelf 😅 My library has the audiobook though, so I might try to read it with two different formats! I also haven’t yet read the first Crescent City book, I was SO hyped for it and bought it right as the pandemic started, but then my interest got momentarily lost somewhere. I will read these as I own both physically, but it doesn’t help that they are long 😂

The Toll (Neal Shusterman)

📖 625 pages 📖

➽ Yet another series I love but haven’t finished 😅 I loved the first two books in the series (I last read Thunderhead in 2018 so it has been a while …) but once again I procrastinated reading the series finale. The books are known for being very intense and having you scared for the characters, so I was nervous 🥺 The Toll also seems to be about one of the characters introduced in the second book that I didn’t find particularly interesting, so I was a bit hesitant about picking it up. I’ll of course still finish the series, but I’m not sure when I’ll get around to reading it, with so many other books calling my attention 😱

Shades of Magic Trilogy (V.E. Schwab)

• 2.) A Gathering of Shadows 📖 512 pages
• 3.) A Conjuring of Light 📖 624 pages

➽ I read A Darker Shade of Magic in 2018 and never continued with the series 😭 The thing is that I enjoyed the first book (though not as much as Vicious) and I still want to continue the series, it just got lost among the other series I need to finish. I have to admit that A Gathering of Shadows and A Conjuring of Light weren’t on my priority list for these past couple of years, but my interest in them has gradually returned 💕 The last push towards them was Destiny mentioning that she liked the graphic novel adaptation (which is set before the beginning of the Trilogy), so now I’m eager to continue 😊

From Ash and Blood (Jennifer L. Armentrout)

📖 622 pages 📖

➽ I honestly had no idea this book was so long 😂 I heard many things about From Ash and Blood (not all of them good), but I wanted to check it out, as it sounded like a fun Fantasy romance! I used to love Jennifer L. Armentrout when I was in high school and I’m nowhere near caught up with her huge backlist. I won’t be reading all of her books though, as my reading tastes have developed a lot since I first read her and not all her books are as appealing to me anymore. She usually doesn’t write books that long so I’m intrigued what makes From Ash and blood different 👀

King of Fools (Amanda Foody)

📖 602 pages 📖

➽ This is the year I’m catching up with the Shadow Game series! I loved the first book when I read it, but somehow never got around to continuing the series. King of Fools is the only tome in the series (books 1 and 3 are under 500 pages) and I did get around 200 pages into it at one point. I really liked what I read as there is lots of political intrigue and twists, I love series that have me spinning my own theories 🥰 As I love this world so much, I’m excited that this second book is so long as it promises at least some answers and more information about the various abilities in the books!

Have you read any of the Books on my list? Did you like them? What are the longest books on your TBR? 📚

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