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This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic from That Artsy Reader Girl<\/a> focuses on doorstoppers, the type of book that you can use to weigh down a beach blanket on a breezy day. I decided to share the ten longest books on my Goodreads want-to-read list:<\/p>\n

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  1. The Count of Monte Cristo<\/em> by Alexandre Dumas (1276 pages)<\/li>\n
  2. Collected Poems: 1950-2012<\/em> by Adrienne Rich (1164 pages)<\/li>\n
  3. Divine Days<\/em> by Leon Forrest (1135 pages)<\/li>\n
  4. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln<\/em> by Doris Kearns Goodwin (916 pages)<\/li>\n
  5. The Luminaries<\/em> by Eleanor Catton (848 pages)<\/li>\n
  6. A Dictionary of Modern English Usage<\/em> by Henry Watson Fowler (825 pages)<\/li>\n
  7. The Saga of Icelanders<\/em> edited by Jane Smiley (782 pages)<\/li>\n
  8. The Way We Live Now<\/em> by Anthony Trollope (776 pages)<\/li>\n
  9. The Lies of Locke Lamora<\/em> by Scott Lynch (752 pages)<\/li>\n
  10. Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford<\/em> by Jessica Mitford (744 pages)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    How about you? Do you have any lengthy tomes you’d recommend I pick up?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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