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What’s the LONGEST BOOK you’ve ever read?

At the Brooklyn Book Festival last Sunday, we asked readers to name the longest book they’ve ever read. Here are some of their answers: 

IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME, Marcel Proust (3031 pages)

WAR AND PEACE, Leo Tolstoy (1440 pages)

A SUITABLE BOY, Vikram Seth (1368 pages)

THE LORD OF THE RINGS, J.R.R. Tolkien (1216 pages)

THE STAND, Stephen King (1153 pages)

CAPITAL: PART 1, Karl Marx (1152 pages)

2666, Roberto Bolaño (1126 pages)

IT, Stephen King (1116 pages)

INFINITE JEST, David Foster Wallace (1104 pages)

GONE WITH THE WIND, Margaret Mitchell (1037 pages)

DON QUIXOTE, Miguel de Cervantes (982 pages)

THE YEARS OF LYNDON JOHNSON, Robert A. Caro (960 pages)

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF HENRY VIII, Margaret George (939 pages)

1Q84, Haruki Murakami (925 pages)

MIDDLEMARCH, George Eliot (904 pages)

OUTLANDER, Diana Gabaldon (896 pages)

THE MISTS OF AVALON, Marion Zimmer Bradley (876 pages)

CHE GUEVARA: A REVOLUTIONARY LIFE, Jon Lee Anderson (814 pages)

THE DIVINE COMEDY, Dante Alighieri (798 pages)

THE POWERS THAT BE, David Halberstam (792 pages)

THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY, Irving Stone (776 pages)

THE GOLDFINCH, Donna Tartt (771 pages)

THE NINE LIVES OF CHLOE KING, Celia Thomson (771 pages)

HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX, J.K. Rowling (766 pages)

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, J.K. Rowling (759 pages)

THE FOUNTAINHEAD, Ayn Rand (720 pages)

MOBY DICK, Herman Melville (663 pages)

TILT, Ellen Hopkins (608 pages)

THE IRAN-IRAQ WAR, Pierre Razoux (580 pages)

THE STORY OF THE STONE, Cao Xueqim (544 pages)

THE CANTERBURY TALES, Geoffrey Chaucer (504 pages)

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X, Malcolm X (466 pages)

TITANIC, Filson Young (236 pages)

THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN, Mitch Albom (196 pages)

Which long books have you read? Reblog with the title of your thickest tome! 

And check out the 2015 National Book Awards Longlists for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young People’s Literature at www.nationalbook.org!

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Join us at the Brooklyn Book Festival this Sunday!

The Brooklyn Book Festival, the biggest and best literary extravaganza in NYC, returns this Sunday. We’ve highlighted some of our favorite events below, including a panel of esteemed 5 Under 35 alums who’ll be on the main stage at 1 pm.

You can join us throughout the day at booth 210, where we’ll be celebrating our National Book Awards Longlists. There you’ll also be able to meet the co-founders of Call Me Ishmael, one of our Innovations in Reading Prize Honorees, who’ll be there with a special surprise!

PLUS, you can pick up t-shirts and limited edition jerseys from The Other NBA, the greatest basketball game in Literary history.

FEATURED: The National Book Foundation Presents 5 Under 35 Alums
1 pm on the Mainstage

Featuring Yelena Akhtiorskaya, Danielle Evans, and Kirstin Valdez Quade. Moderated by Amity Gaige.

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National Book Foundation at the Brooklyn Book Festival

The 2014 Brooklyn Book Festival is packed full of terrific events with some of the best authors around. If you’re headed to the festival on Sunday, here’s a schedule featuring writers in the National Book Foundation community.

10:00 AM

“In ______ We Trust”
feat. Fiona Maazel at the Brooklyn Law School Student Lounge

11:00 AM
“21st Century Narrators, Presented by London Review of Books”
feat. Ben Lerner at the North Stage

“The Hilarity of Death and Deadlines”
feat. Roz Chast at the Saint Francis College Auditorium

12:00 PM
“About Africa”
feat. Dinaw Mengestu at the St. Francis MrArdle

“Join the Coversation”
feat. Mary Gordon at the Borough Hall Courtroom

1:00 PM
“Eye of the Beholder”

feat. James McBride at the Brooklyn Law School Moot Courtroom

“New York, New York”
feat Coe Booth and Rebecca Stead at the Youth Pavilion

“How to Write About a City”
feat. Philip Lopate and Lynn Sharon Schwartz at the Brooklyn Law School Student Lounge

“Poets Laureate Past and Present”
feat. Rita Dove, Marie Howe, and Alice Quinn at the Main Stage

2:00 PM
“That’s Entertainment!”
feat Adele Griffin at the Youth Pavilion

“A Force Unleashed, Presented by the Brooklyn Public Library”
feat. Tiphanie Yanique at the Borough Hall Courtroom

“The Displaced, the Dispossessed, and the Dreamers” featuring Edan Lepucki at the Borough Hall Media Room

“Losing and Finding Yourself: Comics of Heartbreak and Healing” featuring Anya Ulinich at the Brooklyn Historical Society

3:00 PM

“The Looming Past”
feat. Julie Otsuka at the North Stage

“Where I’m Writing From: Hometown Fiction”
feat. Rene Steinke at St. Francis McArdle

“I Love You. The End.”
feat. Ann Brashares at the Youth Pavilion

“New Works: A Poetry Reading”
feat. Lucie Brock Broido at the Brooklyn Historical Society Library

3:30 PM
“Influence of the Real”
Feat. Francine Prose and Joyce Carol Oates at St. Ann & The Holy Trinity Church

4:00 PM
“BKBF Presents James McBride, 2014 BoBi Honoree”
feat. James McBride at the Borough Hall Courtroom

“Darkness on the Edge of Town”
feat. Mitchell S. Jackson at the Brooklyn Law School Moot Courtroom

“Family and Home”
feat. Tiphanie Yanique at the Borough Hall Media Room

“Brave New World” featuring Evan Osnos at the Brooklyn Law School Student Lounge

5:00 PM
“Online Lives”
feat. Andre Dubus III and Joshua Ferris at the Brooklyn Law School Student Lounge

“Trust Me, Really”
feat. Ben Greenman at the Brooklyn Historical Society Library

“Poetic Visions”
feat. Mark Doty and Craig Teicher at the Brooklyn Historical Society

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Here at the National Book Foundation, we are totes excited about our brand new tote bags! They will be available at our booth (#36) at the Brooklyn Book Festival September 22, along with free copies of our 2012 National Book Award Winners and Finalists! See you there!