Ten of the best long books

Martin Seay's debut novel is The Mirror Thief.

One of his ten best long books, as shared at Publishers Weekly:Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville (1851, 720 pages in Penguin Classics trade paperback edition)

Moby-Dick’s status as a “classic,” though certainly deserved, tends to obscure what a strange, profound, troublesome, and completely nutty book it is. By using one artificial,