Tome Topple Readathon discussion

Hey all! Thank you so much for joining the readathon :) We wanted to put a list together of suggestions for big books to read, as we did have some people during the first round who had trouble deciding what to pick up. This is by no means an exhaustive list, but is somewhere to get you started. It is sorted, vaguely, by genre.

Adult Fantasy
--Any of Brandon Sanderson’s adult fantasy books
--The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
--The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
--The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
--The Mirror Empire by Kameron Hurley (Sam and Adriana will be buddy reading this one!)
--A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin
--American Gods by Neil Gaiman
--Theft of Swords by Michael J. Sullivan
--A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
--Nevernight by Jay Kristof
--Written in Red by Anne Bishop
--The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
--The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu
--A Gathering of Shadows by V.E. Schwab
--The Thousand Names by Django Weller
--Winter’s Tale by Mark Helprin

Adult Literary Fiction
--A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
--All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
--The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
--The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
--Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
--The Passage by Justin Cronin
--The Secret History by Donna Tarts
--A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
--I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
--1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
--Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
--The Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (magical realism)
--Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
--Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
--House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski (horror)
--Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
--Kushiel’s Dart by Jacqueline Carey
--Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar
--The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer

Adult Science Fiction
--The Host by Stephenie Meyer

Adult Historical Fiction
--Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
--Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke (fantasy)
--Saree by Su Dharmapala

YA Historical Fiction
--The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
--The Diviners by Libba Bray (paranormal)
--The Marvels by Brian Selznick (children's)

YA Fantasy
--Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo
--A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J Maas
--Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
--Days of Blood and Starlight by Laini Taylor
--Dreams of Gods and Monsters by Laini Taylor
--Froi of the Exiles by Melina Marchetti
--Quintana of Charyn by Melina Marchetti
--The Last Ever After by Soman Chaining (MG)
--Echo by Pam Muñoz Ryan (MG)
--Grave Mercy by Robin LeFeveres

YA Science Fiction
--Illuminae by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristof
--Battle Royale by Koushun Tatami

YA Contemporary
--Crank by Ellen Hopkins
--The Unexpected Everything by Morgan Matson

Graphic Novels
--Blankets by Craig Thompson

Also let us know what you plan on reading below and books with a lot of readers will be getting their own discussion boards for the readathon!

Do novella bind ups count? Like Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy?

No, bind ups of any kind don't count. The individual works have to be over 500 pgs.

I will read - -Any of Brandon Sanderson’s adult fantasy books :-D:-D:-D
Also, thank you Samantha for this AMAZING list !!!

Yes, now I can make my TBR!!!

I will def be reading American Gods by Neil Gaiman, Anna Karenina, A little life!

I am so excited for this! Thanks Samantha for this list!

Thanks for this awesome list. It gave me so many ideas. This will be my first time participating in this readathon!

Oo yes, nevernight and the unexpected everything will be my picks. And probably the black Prism by Brent Weeks

i will be reading The Host and Night Film. If i have time also a Joe Hill book.
Thanks for the list. :-)

I have Illuminae Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristof and The Host by Stephanie Meyer both on Kindle, I haven't read either of them yet, would they still count being on the kindle?

Definitely listening to Jonathan Strange on audio and reading A Game of Thrones!

Yes, kindle books count! :)

^_^ Thanks for this list too and the read-a-thon!

I have The Night Circus as well, 512 pages
Illuminae, The Host, and The Night Circus. I don't think I could read all of them but at least one, maybe 2. :)

I am so ready for this!
Next year at this time I think I will tackle Game of Thrones.

Samantha wrote: "No, bind ups of any kind don't count. The individual works have to be over 500 pgs."

Does that mean HP Lovecraft's "Necronomicon" doesn't count? It's a collection of Lovecraft stories.

This is my first goodreads challenge. I'm so torn about what to read.

Can you read non-fiction? I picked two from this list I have been wanting to read for some time but I have a nonfiction that is over 500 pages that if possible I would like to get to as well (The Sisters: the Saga of the Mitford Family). Does anyone know if that will count?

Ellie wrote: "Highly recommend The Marvels by Brain Selznick!! It's half illustrated story, half prose, 665 pages and it's so gorgeous. Historical fiction, generational tale that really plays with narrative form..."

I could not agree with you more, I LOVE THESE BOOKS!! I would probably say Wonderstruck is my favorite but they are all amazing and beautiful books.

Kelly wrote: "Ellie wrote: "Highly recommend The Marvels by Brain Selznick!! It's half illustrated story, half prose, 665 pages and it's so gorgeous. Historical fiction, generational tale that really plays with ..."

The Marvels is excellent! It is a quick read too! I would say my fav selznick is hugo, hands down.

Kelly wrote: "Can you read non-fiction? I picked two from this list I have been wanting to read for some time but I have a nonfiction that is over 500 pages that if possible I would like to get to as well (The S..."

Yes nonfiction does count!

I was hoping to read Rogues (an anthology) during the tome tobble since it's like around 1000 pages and really daunting, but as I understand anthologies are not allowed for the readathon?

My other options so far are: Mistborn, Blood Rights (uskyldigt blod) the danish edition is 533 pages (if I don't get to it for Borrowathon), Illuminae and maybe a reread of HP and the Order of the Phoenix.

Ellie wrote: "Xavier Price-Kirkham wrote: "Kelly wrote: "Ellie wrote: "Highly recommend The Marvels by Brain Selznick!! It's half illustrated story, half prose, 665 pages and it's so gorgeous. Historical fiction..."

You won't regret it!

Do audiobooks count?

We are reading from ASOIAF! and Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norrell! We'd really like to chat w/ ppl who are going to be reading the same! Here's our Tome Topple TBR video. https://youtu.be/AUv8QTO1SZw

I hope this is allowed.

I'm so excited about this read-a-thon!!

One question:
Do short story collections count? If you read all short stories?
I was thinking about reading one by Stephen King.

This is my first try at a read-a-thon! I finally have some free time and this is a great way to spend time and push myself to read more :)
The suggestions look great but I think I better get some books from my TBR.

I'm thinking about starting the Magnus Chase series. Goodreads says the first book, The Sword of Summer, clocks in at 499 pages but Barnes and Noble says 512 pages so I'm counting it. I actually haven't finished the PJO series but I've had interest in this one so maybe reading it will inspire me to finally finish PJO and maybe start the Heroes of Olympus series.

I need a little help. I finished The Girl on the Train. I would a suggestion for a psychological thriller just over 500 pages as a replacement for the feast of crows..I'm not even half way through storm of swords so I don't want to start the next one before I finish that one. Something adult and maybe even on youtube audio.

Question, would a book such as Les Mis be considered a bind book? Cause I want to have a push to read it faster but if it's not counted I'll find something else to take part with haha

Brandon wrote: "Question, would a book such as Les Mis be considered a bind book?"

It's on the list of suggestions in the first post of this thread.

Oh oops skim read my bad

Len wrote: "I need a little help. I finished The Girl on the Train. I would a suggestion for a psychological thriller just over 500 pages as a replacement for the feast of crows..I'm not even half way through ..."

I would really recommend Night Film by Marisha Pessl :)
( -it's circa 600 pgs and it's a psychological thriller, but I don't think it's on youtube audio )

Does a book that is close to being 500 pgs count?

I have heard that Nevernight can be a bit daunting to get through and that you use quite a lot of time reading it- because of the writing style. I want to read it at some point, but I don't know if it's right for a read-a-thon. Anyone have any experiences with this book?
Ps. I want to try to read al least two books this read-a-thon ;)

I have so many that I need to get to:

Night Film
The Luminaries
The Mistborn Trilogy
The Name of the Wind & The Wise Man's Fear
IQ84
A Gathering of Shadows
The Goldfinch
Fingersmith
The Diviners
Days of Blood and Starlight & Dreams of Gods and Monsters
The Nightbringer Series
and a few more that I can't recall...

Good thing I have a few days to choose?

I'm leaning towards Night Film, The Final Empire, and Days of Blood and Starlight or The Black Prism.

Does anyone have some more graphic novel ideas? I read Blankets two weeks ago and loved it. All the other graphic novels i've got are 130 or so pages..

I will be reading The Mirror Empire and Warbreaker.
I have never read a graphic novel so I don't even know where to start with that challenge. Any suggestions?

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry is 945 pages, so I think it qualifies. :)

Check out my Tome Topple Readathon TBR! I just finished it! I am so excited!

https://youtu.be/nigfXh_h9qE

I'll be reading "The Lies of Locke Lamora" and "Red Seas Under Red Skies" by Scott Lynch! And hopefully, get to finish reading "The Well of Ascension" by Brandon Sanderson. I'm so excited for this readathon!❤️

I will start with Carry On and then read as much of The Goldfinch as possible.

Hoping to read The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson! :D

Sanne wrote: "Does anyone have some more graphic novel ideas? I read Blankets two weeks ago and loved it. All the other graphic novels i've got are 130 or so pages.."

If you want a more gritty graphic novel, From Hell by Alan Moore is over 500+. I'll warn that it is definitely more adult (aka, depicts human anatomy and gore), so this may or may not be something that interests you.

I've finalized my tbr!
Crooked Kingdom is a definite and hopefully I'll be able to finish Jane Eyre too.

If I finish those, or just feel like a change of scene, I have plenty of backups: The Final Empire, Kafka on the Shore and A Gathering of Shadows

This way I fulfill all the challenges except the graphic novel one. Oh well...

This may be a silly question, but when you're figuring out if the book is over 500 pages, do you only look at the actual story or do you include the appendixes and indexes if they have page numbers at the top?

So excited! So far, I plan on reading Dragonfly in Amber, Mistborn, and After by Anna Todd. I might add in The Unexpected Everything. Hopefully I do better than the last readathon!!

I plan on trying to get through Illuminae, The King by JR Ward, and the 3rd GoT book.

I MIGHT try braving War and Peace. *cries*

I'm hoping I get to Outlander AND Night Film

Cress which I've technically already started about 150 pages in but I never finished it so I'm just going to continue it!

And try to finish replica.