We asked Canongaters a question: What's your favourite long (doorstop-worthy) book?

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 The list reads:

• The Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath
  
• Homicide by David Simon
  
• The Stand by Stephen King
• Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West
• The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
• Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
• The Glass [Books] of the Dream Eaters by Gordon Dahlquist
• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
• A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz
• Shant[a]ram by Gregory David Roberts
• The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber (again!)
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
  

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