2025 Five Books Over Five Hundred Pages

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34 participants (107 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
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

V.E. Schwab

560 pages • first pub 2025 (editions)

fiction fantasy historical lgbtqia+ adventurous medium-paced
Low Compendium by Rick Remender

Low Compendium

Rick Remender

840 pages • first pub 2023 (editions) user-added

fiction comics fantasy graphic novel science fiction
The Will of the Many by James Islington

The Will of the Many

Hierarchy #1

James Islington

630 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction fantasy adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced
A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths by John Barton

A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths

John Barton

512 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy religion challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros

Iron Flame

The Empyrean #2

Rebecca Yarros

623 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction fantasy romance adventurous emotional tense medium-paced
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

North and South

Elizabeth Gaskell

521 pages • first pub 1855 (editions)

fiction classics literary romance emotional slow-paced
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

The Night Circus

Erin Morgenstern

504 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

fiction fantasy historical romance adventurous mysterious slow-paced
Daughter of No Worlds by Carissa Broadbent

Daughter of No Worlds

The War of Lost Hearts #1

Carissa Broadbent

507 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction fantasy romance adventurous dark emotional medium-paced
The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal

The Calculating Stars

Lady Astronaut #1

Mary Robinette Kowal

504 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

fiction historical science fiction adventurous hopeful inspiring medium-paced
Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

Red Mars

Mars Trilogy #1

Kim Stanley Robinson

572 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)

fiction science fiction speculative fiction adventurous challenging slow-paced