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#10 – Ponniyin Selvan

Read or Die: 10 Longest Novels in the World!

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Kalki Krishnamurthy 900,000 words / 2,400 pages

Published in 1950's in 5 volumes, this romance tells the story of Rajaraja Chola First, one of the Chola kings who ruled in X-XI centuries. Creating the novel took Krishnamurti 3 years and 6 months. Probably reading of this romance takes the same period of time (without regard to the need of studying the language).

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