55 min
45 pages · 3.86★ on Hardcover
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The classics
The canon, with the one thing nobody tells you: how many hours it will actually cost.
A curated backbone of books that have lasted, kept in the library permanently rather than cycling in and out with the bestseller lists. The reason they are worth a shelf of their own here is that reading times for the canon are genuinely hard to find, and they vary enormously — some are an afternoon, some are a month. Shortest first.
26 books
2 hrs
112 pages · 4.09★ on Hardcover
2½ hrs
134 pages · 3.96★ on Hardcover
3½ hrs
180 pages · 3.71★ on Hardcover
4½ hrs
215 pages · 4.08★ on Hardcover
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227 pages · 3.91★ on Hardcover
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231 pages · 3.84★ on Hardcover
260 pages · 3.87★ on Hardcover
5½ hrs
274 pages · 3.75★ on Hardcover
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277 pages · 3.61★ on Hardcover
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282 pages · 3.74★ on Hardcover
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298 pages · 3.91★ on Hardcover
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320 pages · 4.17★ on Hardcover
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332 pages · 3.92★ on Hardcover
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335 pages · 3.89★ on Hardcover
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336 pages · 4.24★ on Hardcover
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353 pages · 3.90★ on Hardcover
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362 pages · 3.92★ on Hardcover
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432 pages · 3.67★ on Hardcover
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480 pages · 4.17★ on Hardcover
496 pages · 4.08★ on Hardcover
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536 pages · 4.26★ on Hardcover
11 hrs
549 pages · 3.61★ on Hardcover
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555 pages · 4.01★ on Hardcover
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610 pages · 3.90★ on Hardcover
16 hrs
796 pages · 4.38★ on Hardcover