This is actually a list of the weirdest book titles and one listing for the longest book title. The coppell, texas, writer has been making a run at the record books with his stillgrowing story of a christhaunted filmmaker who believes he is called on. With 100 authors contributing not more than 1500 words. The book, published in july 2007, is written by davide ciliberti. Add your favorite books that have titles that have at least six words, not counting. Rated the longest novel ever by the guinness book of world records, theres no doubt that prousts masterpiece could quite easily double up as a mightily effective doorstop, with volumes clocking up nearly 1. The book title consists of 3,999 characters with spaces or 670 words.
Tatiana ayazo i know the longest word in the whole english language, jimmy tells jenny by the playground swings. The entries are listed in order of increasing word count, ranging from six words all the way to 21 yikes. This is a list of the novels over 500,000 words published through a mainstream publisher. He has also been granted the honor of knighthood from a long list of nations across the world, from greece. Swedish group rednex are the proud owners of the worlds longest song title. I am anonymous robot and i gonna read you the longest book title, which belongs to writer and artist nigel tomm.
Compiling a list of longest novels yields different results depending on whether pages, words or characters are counted. At that point, i think we can safely say that we have produced the worlds longest book. The guinness book of world records gives the honor to marcel prousts elephantine remembrance of things past, weighing in at 9,609,000 characters including spaces. What is the longest title of any bestselling book in english. Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It is a guinness world record, therefore you can see the original title sorry for not including it here, but come on 11k characters. It refers to a law for regulating the labeling of beefall in one word. The full book title contains 3777 words and reads as follows. Night of the day of the dawn of the son of the bride of the return of the. However, it was not possible to find an estimate more accurate than above 1,000,000 words for these later editions. Armen shekoyan, an armenian writer committed to producing the worlds longest novel, says. Managers in particular can help the cause by fostering a culture where the use of words to impress rather than inform isnt rewarded, he said. It is also one of the longest monosyllabic words of the english language.
Saul bottcher, if youve read our article how to pick a title for your book, you should have no problem coming up with some good ideas for your book title. While more of a scifihorror mix than straight scifi, kings apocalyptic vision of mankind on the brink of selfdestruction is clearly one of the longest science fiction books of all time. Element c title italicized or underlined followed by a space, with all words other than. Florida pastor makes world record attempt at longest speech. Proceedings of the second international workshop on nude mice university of tokyo press. Second only to your books cover, good titles for books can be a difference maker in not only your sales conversions but also in your books discoverability on amazon.
Yep, that is my summer reading, he replied, glancing down at the 1,088page behemoth of a novel. The weirdest and the longest book title mobileread forums. So last week i asked for your favourite songs with titles of 10 words or more. Over the years, there has been some controversy over what constitutes the worlds longest novel. English word count the number of english words used. Books with really long titles 1409 books goodreads. If you write a book according to the usual criteria, one person may like it, the other may dislike it, but when you write ten volumes, no one will say that the book is in eight.
It was in fact larger but the publishers managed to convince him to shed a. A million authors will give us a book that will run somewhere between 3 and 5 million pages in length. Here are my best tips to writing the perfect nonfiction book title, blog post title, or novel title. Proust produced the first volume of his volume masterpiece in 1912 it was first published in 19.
Youre not alone because most authors have had many sleepless nights over exactly that. At 52 words and 305 characters, including spaces here it is. Learning english 6 minute english what would they write. The guinness book of world records recognizes this cumbersome word as the longest german word in.
Home resourcesdiy practical considerations for your book title practical considerations for your book title. The sad but true story of ray mingus, the lumberjack of bulk rock city, and his never slacking stribe in exploiting the so far undiscovered areas of the intention to bodily intercourse from the opposite species of his kind, during intake of all the. What if the movie of the novel the movie had then been readapted into a series of books. The longest title of a book consists of 26,021 characters, and was achieved. Yvonne and kate discuss the criticisms japans first lady openly lsits in a book about her husband and wonder whether theyd be. A suitable boy by vikram seth which is an amazing piece of literary work and personally i consider his lifes masterpiece is simply magnanimous. The following is a partial list of book titles taken from literature. Henry julian abraham, justices, presidents, and senators 29095 5th ed. The longest book of the new testament, and the twelfth longest book of the entire bible, is the gospel of luke with 19,482 greek words. This british allstar comedy from the 1960s not only had a memorably long title but also had a very catchy theme song. But when the company recently released its latest annual book which added new. Dr subramonian, principal, dr r v arts and science college, karamadai, about 25 km from coimbatore, has written a book about daniel radcliffe, the young actor, who gave life to j k rowlings character harry. Many authors will use quotations from literature as the title for their works. May 19, 2005 similar kind of thing longest words in titles.
When i say series i mean books written about and staring the same characters. Depending on what genre you are titling, youll use different tactics. List of book titles taken from literature wikipedia. Job titles have always been dressed up or embellished to make them sound more exciting, glamorous or important than they really are. The examples of longest words within the agglutinative languages section may be nowhere near close to the longest possible word in said language, but is instead a popular example of a textheavy word. C by tom mccarthy, one of the novels shortlisted for this years booker prize, is not the first novel to be assigned a single letter from the alphabet as its title. May 31, 2017 the longest nonfiction book i know of is church dogmatics, writter originally in german, by the greatest theologian of the 20th century, karl barth 18861968. In other words, janela says, after two or three hours, what does a. In other words, the anonymous scribe seems to have dedicated the most. Holds the guinness book of records title as longest novel.
Say an author announces that his or her next book will be the longest book in the world. None of the other books topped 500 words in a single paragraph, although there were three that surpassed 450. The fifth longest book of the bible is exodus with 25,957 hebrew words. The title translates to remembrance of things past. Home the a to z of the shortest book titles the a to z of the shortest book titles c by tom mccarthy, one of the novels shortlisted for this years booker prize, is not the first novel to be assigned a single letter from the alphabet as its title. I want to be quick to point out that the proposed abridged edition of the the world transformed will not be anything remotely approaching the worlds longest book. The word count of 969,000 words is true for the first edition of clarissa, but later editions seem to have climbed to above 1,000,000 words. I guess the hardy boys would count, but those books tend to be one off books and not a continuing series of books. How to title a book 2020 nyts bestselling book title. Book titles and blog post titles are often very different. How to come up with the best titles for books and blogs. Free thesaurus definition of parts of books from the macmillan english dictionary a free english dictionary online with thesaurus and with pronunciation from macmillan education. Here, he definitively answers the ageold question of how long the longest book in the world could be. Marienbad my love, the worlds longest novel, that tops 17 million words and also sets new records for the worlds longest word, sentence and book title.
The worlds longest book title is the history of the wars of newengland with the eastern indians, or a narrative of their continued perfidy and cruelty, from the 10th of august, 1703, to the peace renewed th of july, 17, and from the 25th of july, 1722, to their submission 15th december, 1725, which was ratified august 5th, 1726m by samuel penhallow. Special thanks go to logos bible software for making determining the longest book of the bible by hebrew or greek word count much easier. Jun 04, 2014 anyway, the book itself was mildly popular, spending five weeks on the new york times bestseller list, though we cant attest why its so ungodly long, since the plot summary on its wikipedia page is a mere 305 words. Its theme of involuntary memory is repeated through the course of following. List of books in the bible from shortest to longest. The original title was amended and elongated at the. The trick for writing perfect amazon product titles is a bit of an enigma in the seo world. Considering that the book itself hit 520,000 words, combined with our horrible math abilities, that means that you would. English translation is titled remembrance of things past or in search of lost time. To keep things interesting, sequels and franchise entries arent be included, either. Our new book project, a collection of ideas for making the world a better place entitled the world transformed, has been going by the nickname the worlds longest book.
The stand is the classic endofworld scenario and one of kings most popular books definitely his longest. According to a survey two years ago in the uk, seven out of 10. I searched for a list of books in the bible from shortest to longest. Procedure divide the students into two to four teams. Length of a book is typically associated with its sizespecifically page countleading many to assume the largest and thickest book equates to its length. The longest title of a book consists of 26,021 characters, and was achieved by vityala yethindra india in bishkek, kyrgyzstan, on 20 march 2019. As i did more research, i realized that there were many issues i had to take into consideration when deciding what to include on this list. Here are 15 great movies with terribly long titles. The book with the longest paragraph was the prince of nothing, which had one paragraph of 508 words. Even amazon doesnt list the full title and its not recognized by guinness yet, anyway the guinness book of world records has a book title that is the longest in the world. Its the longest english word composed exclusively of vowels, and it has the most consecutive vowels of any word.
This may be done as a conscious allusion to the themes of the older work or simply because the phrase seems memorable. Seeking an entry in the guinness book of world records, a college principal on monday released a book with the longest title of 1022 words with 4805 characters and no space. A book with a million authors and a million chapters now thats a project worth getting excited about. This number to words converter can also be useful for foreign students of english esl who need to learn both how to write and how to pronounce the cardinal and ordinal numbers. Perhaps, you have reached us looking for the answer to a question like. Some people claim that you should keep titles as simple as possible, and others believe its best to keyword stuff those babies like theres no tomorrow. Weve taken a look at the shortest books in the bible, but what about the longest book in the bible if youd asked me about it in sunday school, my answer would have been a quick, confident psalms. Top 10 longest books in the world 2018 update articles. This was a 1999 german word of the year, and it also won a special award as the longest german word for that year. Legitimate hyphenation is seen in john williams theme from e. The unhyphenated award goes to the contours just a little misunderstanding 16 letter word. Mahershalalhashbaz this is the longest name in the bible an it can be found in isaiah 8. Systematic names of chemical compounds can run to hundreds of thousands of characters in length.
Whats the weirdest book title and the longest book title youve seen. Assassins apprentice 453, the hobbit 458, and the lord of. The 7 longest books in american history america fun fact. Longest one word song title music discussion songfacts forums. According to the guinness book of world records, the book with the longest title in the world contains 5,820 characters 1,022 words. In 2014, the annual diagram prize for the oddest book title was awarded to how to poo on a. This is the longest australian book with 850 000 words. However, if youre interested, you can read the whole title here. Book title, author, editionpublisher, page count, volumes, page size, word count, language.
To make the longest word possible from letters won in a quiz game preparation a list of words beginning with each letter of the alphabet and clues level any time 20 minutes introduction in this word game, students make the longest word they can from letters won by guessing the answers to clues. It felt like every band in the 20052008 era had the longest song titles ever, including fall out boy. If so, do we limit ourselves to the classics, or is any published. Davide ciliberti wrote the book very recently in july 2007. The 7 longest books in american history america fun fact of. Unfortunately they dont have all books, but they do have the most popular ones. If that subtitle is key, a shorter main title may qualify. This hyper word references a beef labeling regulation and delegation of supervision law.
Search for word count totals in books word counters. May 03, 2015 it felt like every band in the 20052008 era had the longest song titles ever, including fall out boy. This is a list of video games with the longest scripts, referring to the amount of textdialogue contained in a game this list uses three methods to determine the length of a games script. These and other problems have made it impossible, until. Proust was known as an author who wanted to speak his mind out, so the length of the book is not surprising at all. National library of sweden, codex gigas, or the devils bible, the devil, 290 r. Ten of the most interesting facts about the largest medieval book in the world, the. The boat of a million years by poul anderson, the angel of the crows by katherine addison, why chimpanzees ca. Top 10 longest novels in the english language listverse. Top 10 longest novels in the english languagetop 10 longest novels in the english languagei love a long book that i can really get into, so i decided to compile a list of the longest novels ever written. Nov 10, 2007 i am anonymous robot and i gonna read you the longest book title, which belongs to writer and artist nigel tomm. From this point, search for your book, click on the title within the list of results, and on the following page youll find the book s word count.
The third book is listed on as the longest book title though it has only a mere 290 words. Nov 12, 2007 the title has 4805 characters and no spaces. I figured this because the book has 150 psalms, and the runnerup in chapter count would have been isaiah, with a meager 66 chaptersthats less than half of what psalms has. Books with really long titles add your favorite books that have titles that have at least six words, not counting what comes after the colon. Play sporcle s virtual live trivia to have fun, connect with people, and get your trivia on. Hello steven, the books in the bible from shortest to longest is 66 in number not 24. The longest novel is artamene ou le grand cyrus, originally published 164954 in ten parts, each part in three volumes. Of all the books ever published, which one has the longest. The longest word in english will leave you speechless. Th ose magnificent men in their flying machines, or how i flew from london to paris in 25 hours 11 minutes 196520 words.
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