Personally, I’m down with a long book — I love diving into a story and knowing I’ll get to stick around for a while, spending quality time with the characters I love and the world they live in. But at the same time, I get it: not everyone wants to sit down with all 1049 pages of The Arabian Nights when there are so many other good books to read; ones that require far less significant a time commitment. Some of us have Netflix binges to get back to, after all. But with that said, there are still some especially long books that are definitely worth the time it takes to read them.

Here are 11 of the longest books that are still worth your time…

Via https://www.bustle.com/articles/193009-11-incredibly-long-books-that-are-definitely-worth-the-time-commitment?platform=hootsuite