10 longest novels

10. A Dance to the Music of Time

• number of words: 1,000,000
• number of pages: 3,024
• author: Anthony Powell
• language: English

9. Zettels Traum

• number of words: 1,100,000
• number of pages: 1,536
• author: Arno Schmidt
• language: German

8. À la recherche du temps perdu

• number of words: 1,267,069
• number of pages: 3,031
• author: Marcel Proust
• language: French

7. Gordana

• number of words: 1,400,000
• number of pages: 8,768
• author: Marija Jurić Zagorka
• language: Croatian

6. Het Bureau

• number of words: 1,590,000
• number of pages: 5,058
• author: J. J. Voskuil
• language: Dutch

5. Artamène ou le Grand Cyrus

• number of words: 1,954,300
• number of pages: 13,095
• author: Madeleine de Scudéry
• language: French

4. Les Hommes de bonne volonté

• number of words: 2,070,000
• number of pages: 7,892
• author: Jules Romains
• language: French

3. A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight Series

• number of words: 2,436,924
• number of pages: 6,062
• author: Henry Williamson
• language: English

2. Devta

• number of words: 3,206,310
• number of pages: 8,128
• author: Muhiyyu-d-Deen Nawaab
• language: Urdu

1. Venmurasu

• number of words: 3,640,000
• number of pages: 22,400
• author: Jeyamohan
• language: Tamil