Long Novels 📖

Based on the word count and author, can you guess these novels, some of the longest novels ever written?
Word counts are approximate and depend on edition/translation
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Words
Year
Author
Novel
260,000
2003
J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
310,000
1943
Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead
320,000
1871
George Eliot
Middlemarch
360,000
1880
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov
420,000
1936
Margaret Mitchell
Gone with the Wind
440,000
1986
Stephen King
It
460,000
1954
J. R. R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings
470,000
1978
Stephen King
The Stand
480,000
1996
David Foster Wallace
Infinite Jest
530,000
1862
Victor Hugo
Les Misérables
530,000
1948
Carl Sandburg
Remembrance Rock
570,000
1957
Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
590,000
1865
Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace
600,000
2016
Alan Moore
Jerusalem
600,000
1993
Vikram Seth
A Suitable Boy
970,000
1748
Samuel Richardson
Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady
1,270,000
1913
Marcel Proust
In Search of Lost Time
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4 Comments
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Level 90
May 7, 2020
Can you think of any others?
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Level 50
Oct 28, 2023
Please accept "A Remembrance of Things Past" for Proust, as this was the previous translation. Other suggestions - 2 books by James Joyce, 1 by Anthony Powell (12 novel sequence often counted as one).
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Level 90
Oct 28, 2023
OK, will add that!
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Level 65
Apr 26, 2024
Would you consider accepting The Karamazov Brothers as not all translations use The Brothers Karamazov, as it's rather archaic?