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