Looking for novels like War and Peace in which they are massive in scope; just a grand story that has dozens of characters, storylines, maybe takes place over several years/decades, etc.
Bonus points if it's something written semi-recently/past 100 years or so.
Joseph and his brothers by Thomas Mann
pynchon against the day
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Tale of the Genji
East of Eden
Buddenbrocks by Thomas Mann as well
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Harlot's Ghost
Of Time and the River
A Naked Singularity
Circuits of the Wind
The Man Without Qualities
The Far Pavilions
Against the Day
The Historian
Sinister Street
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Yes to all books above and add The Tunnel by Gass
The Silmarillion, if you aren't a soulless husk.
my DICK is massive in scope
In Search of Lost Time is pretty damn massive
Massive books are best books
Give recs for books that are small in scope
cloud atlas
East of Eden gets overlooked a lot for some reason
Most of us do not want to put in the time if the book isn't a big meme.
Google maximalism
Kazantzakis’ Freedom or Death
Dostoevsky’s Demons
Balzac’s anything; Père Goriot is a good one to start with.
East of Eden is not in the same ballpark as War and Peace.
The dream of the red chamber
The Saga of the Rougon Macquart by Zola (about 20 novels)
The Human Comedy by Balzac (about 90 novels and short stories)
Memoirs of Saint Simon
Life a User's Manual -- Georges Perec
Life and Fate -- Vasily Grossman
Three Kingdoms
Dream of the Red Chamber
Based and redbilled