Welcome to the Chunkster Reading Challenge - a challenge which satisfies those readers who like their books fat and chunky!

Suggestions by Page Number

Here is where you can find recommendations by page number. Books are listed alphabetically under each category.

450 - 550 Page Chunksters

 A-C

A Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
An Equal Music, by Vikram Seth
Annabel by Kathleen Winter
At Home, by Bill Bryson
(The) Black Hole War, by Leonard Susskind
Blackout, by Connie Willis
Blame, by Michelle Huneven (LARGE PRINT book)
(The) Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Blue Latitudes, by Tony Horwitz
(The) Book Thief, by Marcus Zusak
(The) Boys of Summer, by Roger Kahn
(The) Broken Tower: The Life of Hart Crane, by Paul Mariani
Burmese Lessons, by Karen Connolly
(The) City of Dreaming Books, by Walter Morris
City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s, by Otto Friedrich
(The) Collected Poems of Audre Lorde
(The) Company of Liars, by Karen Maitland

D-G

Dune, by Frank Herbert
Emma Brown, by Charlotte Bronte
Firefly Lane, by Kristen Hannah
(The) Forgotten Legion, by Ben Kane
(The) Forgotten Garden, by Kate Morton
(The) Girl From Junchow, by Kate Furnivall
(The) Golem and the Jinni, by Helene Wrecker
Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens
(The) Group, by Mary McCarthy

H-L

(The) Help, by Kathryn Stockett
(The) House at Riverton, by Kate Morton
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
(The) Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
(The) Little Stranger, by Sarah Waters
Little Women, by Louisa M. Alcott
(The) Lost Symbol, by Dan Brown

M-P

(The) Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna
(The) Moonstone, by Wilkie Collins
(The) Morland Dynasty: The Emperor, by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
(The) Museum of Innocence, by Orphan Pamuk
(The) Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco
North and South, by Elizabeth Gaskell
Overseas by Beatriz Williams
Owl Killers, by Karen Maitland
Pamela, by Samuel Richardson
(A) Perfect Spy, by John Le Carre

Q-S

(The) Rembrandt Affair, by Daniel Silva
(The) Robber Bride, by Margaret Atwood
(The) Russian Concubine, by Kate Furnivall
Sashenka, by Simon Montefiore
(The) Ship of Brides, by Jojo Moyes
Slaves in the Family, by Edward Ball
Smash Cut, by Sandra Brown
Smoke Screen, by Sandra Brown
Someone Knows My Name, by Lawrence Hill (Alternate title of this book: The Book Of Negroes)
(The) Sparrow, by Mary Doria Russell

T-Z

(The) Tenant of Wildfell Hall, by Anne Bronte
Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
To Say Nothing of the Dog, by Connie Willis
What To Look for in Winter by Candia McWilliam
Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel
XO Orpheus: Fifty New Myths edited by Kate Bernheimer

551 - 650 Page Chunksters 

 A-C

(The) Adventures of Augie March, by Saul Bellow
(The) Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
American Gods, by Neil Gaiman
Angle of Repose, by Wallace Stegner
Can't Stop Won't Stop by Jeff Chang
(The) Children's Hospital by Chris Adrian
(The) Cider House Rules by John Irving
(The) Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen
Creation, by Gore Vidal

D-G

Desiree, by Annemarie Selinko
Doctor Thorne, by Anthony Trollope
Doomsday Book, by Connie Willis
Earthquakes, by Jennifer Weiner
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
(The) Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, by Steig Larsson

H-L

In A Far Country, by Linda Holeman
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Lady Anna, by Anthony Trollope
(The) Lost Symbol, by Dan Brown

M-P

Marcella, by Mrs. Humphrey Ward
 (The) Mill on the Floss, by George Elliot
Naamah's Kiss, by Jacqueline Carey
Pet Semetary, by Stephen King
(A) Prayer for Own Meany by John Irving
(The) Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver

Q-S

(The) Rest is Noise by Alex Ross
Schultz and Peanuts: A Biography, by David Michaelis
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
Sons of Fortune, by Jeffrey Archer
Sophie's Choice by William Styron
(The) Story of Edgar Sawtelle, by David Wroblewski
(The) Swan Thieves, by Elizabeth Kostova

T-Z

Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Three Loves, by A.J. Cronin
(The) Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
We Are Water, by Wally Lamb
(The) Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins

651 - 750 Page Chunksters

A-C

Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
(The) Children's Book, by A. S. Byatt 
Cutting For Stone, by Abraham Verghese

D-G

(The) Emperor of Lies by Steve Sem-Sandburg
(The) Great Hunt, by Robert Jordan

H-L

(The) Likeness, by Tana French

M-P

(The) Magus by John Fowles
Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

Q-S

T-Z

Villette, by Charlotte Bronte

751 - 1000 Page Chunksters
11/22/63 by Stephen King

A-C

(An) An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy
Armadale, by Wilkie Collins
Bleak House, by Charles Dickens
Buddenbrooks, by Thomas Mann
(The) Crimson Petal and White, by Michael Faber

 D-G

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Don't Know Much About History by Kenneth C. Davis
Drood, by Dan Simmons
Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
Far From the Tree by Andrew Solomon
(The) Far Pavilions, by M.M. Kaye
(The) Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt
Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell
Greatest History of Mankind by Roy Porter

H-L

He Knew He Was Right, by Anthony Trollope
JR by William Gaddis
Little Dorritt, by Charles Dickens
Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry

M-P

Middlemarch by George Eliot
Musashi, by Eiji Yoshikawa
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
Outlander, by Diana Gibaldon

Q-S

(The) Quincunx by Charles Palliser
(The) Street Sweeper by Elliot Perlman


T-Z

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
When Christ and His Saints Slept, by Sharon Kay Penman
Winter of the World by Ken Follett
      Greater Than 1000 Page Chunksters

      A Suitable Boy, by Vikram Seth
      Bleak House by Charles Dickens
      Kristen Lavransdotter by Sigrid Undset

      Ulysses, by James Joyce
      Under the Dome by Stephen King
      World Without End, by Ken Follett