If there's one advantage to life under quarantine it's the unprecedented reading time. Granted, the anxiety of a global pandemic doesn't make for the most relaxed reading conditions, but if you've still got the attention span there's never been a better time to seek an escape through the written word or catch up on those lengthy classics you never had time for pre-lockdown.
Here's are 31 books and series with 500 or more pages to keep you occupied until it's safe to emerge again. All titles are available in a free downloadable e-book or audiobook format through SLPL, unless marked with an asterisk (*):
Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (496 pgs.)
The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood (544 pgs.)
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2666 - Roberto Bolaño (898 pgs.)*
The Luminaries - Eleanor Catton (848 pgs.)
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Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes (976 pgs.)
The Expanse series - James S.A. Corey (4,565 total pgs.)
Underworld - Don DeLillo (832 pgs.)
Bleak House - Charles Dickens (572 pgs.)
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky (912 pgs.)
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (1,240 pgs.)
Middlemarch - George Eliot (840 pgs.)
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Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison (624 pgs.)
Ducks, Newburyport - Lucy Ellis (1,030 pgs.)
Neapolitan series - Elena Ferrante (1,696 total pgs.)
Kingsbridge series - Ken Follett (2,940 total pgs.)
Outlander series - Diana Gabaldon (6,936 total pgs.)
Les Misérables - Victor Hugo (1,264 pgs.)
Broken Earth trilogy - N.K. Jemisin (1,424 total pgs.)
Thomas Cromwell trilogy - Hilary Mantel (1,756 total pgs.)
A Song of Ice and Fire series - George R.R. Martin (4,272 total pgs.)
Moby-Dick - Herman Melville (768 pgs.)
1Q84 - Haruki Murakami (944 pgs.)
In Search of Lost Time series - Marcel Proust (4,211 total pgs.)
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth (1,349 pgs.)*
The Tale of Genji - Murasaki Shikibu (1,200 pgs.)
Almanac of the Dead - Leslie Marmon Silko (763 pgs.)*
The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt (775 pgs.)
The Lord of the Rings trilogy - J.R.R. Tolkien (1,178 total pgs.)
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (1,140 pgs.)
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace (1,088 pgs.)*
A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara (720 pgs.)
