Longest Novels Ever Written

Zettels Traum

Arno Schmidt

1,536 pages

14.1 inches (35.8 cm) x 10.8 inches (27.4 cm)

1,100,000 (estimated)

German

Min Kamp

Karl Ove Knausgård

3,600 pages, 6 volumes 

7.9 inches (20.1 cm) x 5.1 inches (13.0 cm)

1,000,000 (estimated)

Norwegian

Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady

Samuel Richardson

1,534 pages, paperback

9.2 inches (23.4 cm) x 5.8 inches (14.7 cm)

984,870 (1964 estimate by The New York Times^])

English

کلیدر (Kelidar)

Mahmoud Dowlatabadi

2,836 pages, 10 volumes

8.6 inches (21.8 cm) x 8.5 inches (21.6 cm)

950,000 (estimated)

Persian

பொன்னியின் செல்வன் (The Son of Ponni)

Kalki Krishnamurthy

2,600 pages, 5 volume

8.6 inches (21.8 cm) x 8.5 inches (21.6 cm)

900,000 (estimated)

Tamil

Poor Fellow My Country

Xavier Herbert

1,466 pages, hardcover

8.1 inches (20.6 cm) x 5.6 inches (14.2 cm)

852,000

English

Women and Men

Joseph McElroy

1,192 pages, hardcover

9 inches (22.9 cm) x 6 inches (15.2 cm)

850,000 (estimated)

700,000 (estimated)

English

Sironia, Texas

Madison Cooper

1,731 pages, 2 volumes

Unknown dimensions

840,000 (estimated)

English