The longest book ever written the longest book ever written is called yongle dadian. Years ago, two new yorker articles told the story of a harvard. In the longest game jan timman returns to the kasparovkarpov matches. Since then it has sold more than 143 million copies in over 100 countries, and has been translated into at least 22 languages. Britains tax code is an incredible 17, 000 pages long. The book was placed on a specially designed lorry and inclined at a 70 degree. A million authors will give us a book that will run somewhere between 3 and 5 million pages in length. Which was not a result of the baby boom that followed world war ii answers apex. Top 10 longest books in the world 2018 update by katerina s october 17, 2014 the length of a book is usually at least among the readers considered to be the number of pages from cover to cover. The title of the book was something like i may have this wrong, but you get the idea everything men kn. By scrolling the replaced lines, the 333 real lines in this section will be loaded and. This golden temple is surrounded by hundreds of stone tablets that comprise the worlds largest book. Most of the longest novels ive ever read were written by regular people in their spare time. Rated the longest novel ever by the guinness book of world records.
The megaselling guinness world records book has been an annual phenomenon since its very first publication in 1955. Books with the most pages share book recommendations. Dr subramonian, principal, dr r v arts and science college, karamadai, about 25 km from coimbatore, has written a book about daniel radcliffe, the young actor, who gave life to j k rowlings character harry. The list below has been compiled from a lot of research, and it includes only stand alone titles or the first book in a series. Say an author announces that his or her next book will be the longest book in the world. Color an amazing tower, all the way from your house down on the ground, past dragons, witches, space ports, and flying elephants, to reach the moon at the very top of this coloring book that extends to 15 feet. It was published in ten volumes but considered a single work and contains 2.
Guinness world records books guinness world records. Seeking an entry in the guinness book of world records, a college principal on monday released a book with the longest title of 1022 words with 4805 characters and no space. If you are talking about word count, the answer is zero. Yep, that is my summer reading, he replied, glancing down at the 1,088page behemoth of a novel. When we tested the system we experienced massive loading times when displaying a huge amount of individual visitor lines with their real text.
If we used all that paper in our book, it would be about 12 trillion pages long, and a bookshelf wide enough to hold it would have to wrap around. For example, i just learned today that the us tax code runs some 74,000 pages in length no idea how many volumes that is. Want to tell the world about a book youve read for the summer reading challenge or elsewhere. For a full list of record titles, please use our record. It is also one of the longest monosyllabic words of the english language. He chronicles the many twists and turns of this fascinating saga, including his behindthe scenes impressions, and takes a fresh look at the games. As well as organizing the fifth buddhist council in 1871, he was responsible for the construction in mandalay of the worlds largest book, consisting of 729 large marble tablets with the tipitaka pali canon of theravada buddhism inscribed on them in gold. This task ended up being much more complex than one would think a list of longest books ever should be. Childrens history of worlds oldest and longest canal a. Welcome to worlds longest website growing with every. Who was joe gould, and did he really write the world. Worlds heaviest book unveiled in agra agra news times. At that point, i think we can safely say that we have produced the worlds longest book. By scrolling the replaced lines, the 333 real lines in this section will be loaded and displayed.
Its the longest english word composed exclusively of vowels, and it has the most consecutive vowels of any word. Most pages in a flip book international book of records. But savoring a book of, say, 800 pages or longer is a project. It contains 3,958 pages in four volumes and took 10 years to complete. Thousands of pages of poetry are translated into other languages. With illustrations by du fei, the book takes readers. What is a book or novel that is often overlooked or underrated that you feel should be. It is now one of my favorite books, and i even feel a bit lost now that i am not lugging it around. Back in the late 90s i came across a book in barnes and noble in the humor section. The longest coloring book in the world good wives and warriors on. This is a list of the novels over 500,000 words published through a mainstream publisher. Check out some of the coolest and quirkiest flipping world records and videos.
All records listed on our website are current and uptodate. Who was joe gould, and did he really write the worlds longest book. The coppell, texas, writer has been making a run at the record books with his stillgrowing story of a christhaunted filmmaker who believes he is called on. Its incredibly long and dense it has hundreds of endnotes pages and deals with a highly complex subject matter. An enclyclopedia with 11,095 volumes and 22,877 chapters.
Here, he definitively answers the ageold question of how long the longest book in the world could be. If youre looking for videos featuring the worlds tallest, shortest, fastest, longest, oldest and most incredible things on. Top 10 longest novels in the english language listverse. Most plastic bottle flips onto a book in one minute brendan donlevy. And i thought the stand was long its only 1168 pages. If you are a big book reader or youre curious about the lengths some ya novels have gone in their physical manifestation then youll enjoy this look at the longest ya books around. Marienbad my love, the worlds longest novel, that tops 17 million words and also sets new records for the worlds longest word, sentence and book title. The second part of his work won international awards as soon as it was published and with them, an international reputation. As i did more research, i realized that there were many issues i had to take into consideration when deciding what to include on this list.
Essentially, the book is a giant surreal comedy about the dangers of entertainment. Its theme of involuntary memory is repeated through the course of following the narrators life, from childhood to adulthood. The 10,000authored online edition of the world transformed would, at most, only run about 50,000 pages just two thirds as long as the tax code. Incredible achievements, fun facts and amazing images. One more was added to record how it all came about, making it 730 stone inscriptions in total.
A book with a million authors and a million chapters now thats a project worth getting excited about. I used word count, not number of pages, as the measure of length, and 3. Top 10 longest books in the world 2018 update articles. Length of a book is typically associated with its sizespecifically page countleading many to. This is a very fun book as it is in fact one of the longest crossword puzzles in the world. Other commentators cite henry dargers in the realms of the unreal, a 15,000 page, handwritten tome that has yet to see print. Plus, for readers, the length of a book generally refers to the number of pages but while considering books for world records, it could be the. Not the longest, long book, but at 800 pages its not shabby. Its an awesome crossword puzzle with clever but not impossible to. It was in fact larger but the publishers managed to convince him to shed a.
A suitable boy by vikram seth which is an amazing piece of literary work and personally i consider his lifes masterpiece is simply magnanimous. Ten of the worlds longest books for reading addicts. Welcome to the official international book of records youtube channel. Climb up to the moon with this amazing foldout coloring book, the longest in the world. The length of the page is 100% generated by adding one line with every visitor. What is the shortest book that can realistically be.
The book, much like grossmans first two novels, is radically experimental. The guinness book of world records gives the honor to marcel prousts elephantine remembrance of things past, weighing in at 9,609,000 characters including spaces. But our book is nonfiction and it seems likely that the real longest book in the world is probably a work of nonfiction. The hong kong tax code, widely held by tax lawyers to be the most admirably efficient in the world, is 276 pages long. The best reading records of all time childrens books. Impress your friends by breaking or inventing your own flipping world records on. In china through time, young readers are invited to explore the people, the stories and the fortunes of the worlds longest and oldest canal. Discover worlds largest book at kuthodaw pagoda in mandalay, myanmar burma. Born different im 16 and have the worlds longest legs. Rated the longest novel ever by the guinness book of world records, theres no doubt that prousts masterpiece could quite easily double up as a mightily effective doorstop, with volumes clocking up nearly 1. In terms of pages, romance of the three kingdoms is hard to beat yes, it is longer than. Proust produced the first volume of his volume masterpiece in 1912 it was first published in 19.
The longest sentence contains the longest word, both of them belong to nigel tomm and both are published in the longest novel the blah story. Incorrect book the list contains an incorrect book please specify the title of the book. Its definitely an aspirational story, but its also one of the longest science fiction books of all time. Armen shekoyan, an armenian writer committed to producing the worlds longest novel, says. The longest book in the bible is the book of psalms with 150 chapters. It is supposedly the worlds longest published novel in english at 2. Agra has something else to show to the world apart from the taj mahal. Character count is at best an estimation of spaces, written characters and punctuation.
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