2025 Five Books Over Five Hundred Pages

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34 participants (127 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

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Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Gone With The Wind

Margaret Mitchell

952 pages • 1936 • 204 editions

fiction classics historical romance emotional sad slow-paced
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

A Little Life

Hanya Yanagihara

816 pages • 2015 • 194 editions

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ literary dark emotional sad slow-paced
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

The Goldfinch

Donna Tartt

771 pages • 2013 • 127 editions

fiction contemporary literary mystery dark emotional reflective slow-paced
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese

The Covenant of Water

Abraham Verghese

724 pages • 2023 • 44 editions

fiction historical literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

Patrick Radden Keefe

535 pages • 2021 • 50 editions

nonfiction biography business health history true crime dark informative medium-paced
The Reformatory by Tananarive Due

The Reformatory

Tananarive Due

570 pages • 2023 • 14 editions

fiction historical horror dark emotional tense medium-paced
A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World by Erika Rappaport

A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World

Erika Rappaport

568 pages • 2017 • 3 editions

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Vanity Fair

William Makepeace Thackeray

696 pages • 1848 • 249 editions

fiction classics literary funny reflective slow-paced
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

Harriet A. Washington

501 pages • 2007 • 11 editions

nonfiction health history race science challenging informative slow-paced
Cleaning House by Jeanne G'Fellers

Appalachian Elementals #1

Cleaning House

Jeanne G'Fellers

512 pages • 2018 • 1 edition

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ romance adventurous emotional slow-paced