20 Big Chonky Books

kfsh Host

11 participants (30 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Forget those 500 page medium sized reads, you want to read 20 books that are really chonky:
600+ pages for fiction
500+ pages for non-fiction

Challenge Books

All books added
Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith

Troubled Blood

Cormoran Strike #5

Robert Galbraith

929 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction crime mystery adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

A Game of Thrones

A Song of Ice and Fire #1

George R.R. Martin

835 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)

fiction fantasy adventurous dark tense medium-paced
A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas

A Court of Wings and Ruin

A Court of Thorns and Roses #3

Sarah J. Maas

703 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

fiction fantasy romance adventurous emotional tense medium-paced
A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas

A Court of Mist and Fury

A Court of Thorns and Roses #2

Sarah J. Maas

626 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

fiction fantasy romance adventurous dark emotional medium-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
King by Jonathan Eig

King

Jonathan Eig

688 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction biography history politics race informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese

The Covenant of Water

Abraham Verghese

724 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction historical literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
My Name Is Barbra by Barbra Streisand

My Name Is Barbra

Barbra Streisand

970 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction memoir emotional informative reflective medium-paced
A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas

A Court of Silver Flames

A Court of Thorns and Roses #4

Sarah J. Maas

751 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction fantasy romance adventurous dark emotional medium-paced
The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman

The Bright Sword

Lev Grossman

688 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction fantasy historical literary adventurous slow-paced