One thing about long books is that they take a while to read, and so, unsurprisingly, The Mirror And The Light warrants inclusion on the "long reads" table I compiled a while back (after finishing Lost Man's River). As you can see that book actually has the fastest per-day reading rate of all the books in the list, although of course there's a partly self-fulfilling prophecy involved there since these are, by definition, books I haven't read especially quickly (50 days duration being the lower cut-off).
Applying an arbitrary lower bound of 600 pages, the quickest I've read a "long" book would be The Hydrogen Sonata which I knocked off in 13 days at an average of 46.54 pages per day. I actually suspect that if I had reliable numbers for The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' Nest that might very likely end up being quicker, but it was the last of a group of four books that I read on my honeymoon and so I don't have a separate duration for it.
| Book | Pages | Completion date | Days | Pg/Day |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Mirror And The Light | 875 | 10th November 2026 | 58 | 15.09 |
| Lost Man's River | 539 | 19th April 2026 | 63 | 8.56 |
| Auto Da Fe | 428 | 13th June 2022 | 66 | 6.48 |
| The Pope's Rhinoceros | 753 | 6th September 2021 | 61 | 12.34 |
| A Man In Full | 742 | 2nd August 2018 | 56 | 13.25 |
| The Human Stain | 361 | 23rd December 2017 | 60 | 6.02 |
| The Conservationist | 323 | 22nd July 2017 | 67 | 4.82 |
| Zeno's Conscience | 437 | 4th December 2016 | 78 | 5.60 |
| Midnight's Children | 463 | 16th September 2014 | 91 | 5.09 |
| Infinite Jest | 1079 | 10th February 2013 | 96 | 11.24 |
| The Name Of The Rose | 502 | 28th June 2012 | 53 | 9.47 |
| Sunset Song | 258 | 12th August 2008 | 66 | 3.91 |
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