Literary Fiction

• To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee – 100,388 
• Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift – 107,349 
• Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte – 107,945 
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain – 109,571 
• Lord of the Flies, William Golding – 59,900 
• The Colour Purple, Alice Walker – 66,556 
• Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson – 66,950 
• The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde – 78,462

Epic Literary Fiction Novels

(Epic novels are generally classified as novels over 110,000 words)

• Great Expectations, Charles Dickens – 183,349 
• Les Miserables, Victor Hugo – 530,982 
• War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy – 561,304 
• Ulysses, James Joyce – 265,222 
• Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell – 418,053 
• Moby Dick, Herman Melville – 206,052
• Bleak House, Charles Dickens – 360,947 
• For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway – 174,106 
• Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë – 183,858 
• Catch-22, Joseph Heller – 174,269 
• Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen – 126,194
• The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck – 169,481  

Fantasy

• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke – 308,931 
• American Gods, Neil Gaiman – 183,222 
• The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett – 65,113 
• Eragon, Christopher Paolini – 157,000 

Sci Fi

• The Time Traveller’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger – 155,717 
• Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury – 46,118 
• Brave New World, Aldous Huxley – 63,766 
• War of the Worlds, G. Well – 59,796 
• The Time Machine, G. Well – 32,149 
• Nineteen Eight-Four, George Orwell – 88,942 
• Dune, Frank Herbert – 187,240 
• Frankenstein, Mary Shelley – 74,800

C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia:

• The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe – 38,421 
• Prince Caspian – 46,290 
• The Voyage of the Dawn Treader – 53,960 
• The Silver Chair – 51,022 
• The Horse and His Boy – 48,029 
• The Magician’s Nephew – 64,480 
• The Last Battle – 43,333

A Song of Ice and Fire (George R.R. Martin):

• A Game of Thrones – 298,000 
• A Clash of Kings – 326,000 
• A Storm of Swords – 424,000 
• A Feast for Crows – 300,000 
• A Dance with Dragons – 422,000 
• The entire A Song of Ice and Fire series (so far) – 1,770,000 

Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien):

• The Hobbit – 95,356 
• The Fellowship of the Ring – 187,790 
• The Two Towers – 156,198 
• The Return of the King – 137,115 
• The entire Lord of the Rings series (including The Hobbit) – 576,459

Harry Potter (J.K. Rowling):

• Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – 76,944
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – 85,141
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – 107,253
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – 190,637
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – 257,045
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – 168,923
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – 198,227
• The entire Harry Potter series – 1,084,170