52 Doorstopper Books for Long Fall Evenings

Those of us who have spent a lifetime reading books will recognize this feeling: Sometimes, you get a little ambitious and you wonder—could I tackle a book that size?
 
Such is the theme of today’s collection of doorstopper books for long fall evenings. How are we defining a doorstopper? 450 pages, minimum. The big ones.
 
To put this list together, we gathered together a sampling of long books from recent years; older but still relatively recent books of the long-ass, high-profile variety; and some old classics and hefty Victorian triple-deckers you are likely to recognize. Several of these titles may prompt that familiar interior monologue: “OK, this year, I’m finally going to read that one.” (Dune! Middlemarch! Infinite Jest!)
 
From the brand-new stack, Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s family trauma-drama Long Island Compromise has been a popular book club selection this year. Phillip B. Williams’ novel Ours furthers a rich tradition of Black spirituality (and surrealism) in American literature. And longtime fans of Kelly Link (we are legion) will want to tackle her latest expedition into thoughtful contemporary fantasy, The Book of Love.
 
A couple of starting points for adventurous readers: Kate Atkinson’s unputdownable Life After Life combines evocative historical fiction with a kind of parallel-universe thing that tinkers with the very architecture of how plot works. (The book also won the Goodreads Choice Historical Fiction prize in 2013.) House of Leaves, the weird fiction classic from author Mark Z. Danielewski, does similar things with structure and format while telling the story of a house that’s bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.
 
Click on the book cover images for more details about each title. If anything looks promising, click the Want to Read button to add it to your personal shelf. And don’t forget, many of these books can be used as actual doorstoppers. It’s true. We’ve done it.
 

Now it's your turn! What's the last doorstopper book you read? Are you going to read any doorstoppers in the coming months? Let us know in the comments below!