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This page provides lists of the largest/thickest single-volume books to date both published and unpublished. This list does not include works that span over more than one volume, such as À la recherche du temps perdu , which is regarded as the longest novel ever written.
Orbital is a 2023 novel by English writer Samantha Harvey that incorporates elements of science fiction, [3] [4] literary fiction, and philosophical drama, published by Jonathan Cape in the UK and by Grove Atlantic in the US.
During the 1999 Christmas season, Amazon leased the rights to a defunct imprint called Weathervane. This was Amazon's first attempt at publishing. [27] The titles included Christmas recipe books and others without much market appeal, they were the "creatures from the black lagoon of the remainder table" according to a former employee James Marcus. [27]
In a retrospective review of "strange books", Victoria Schwab of NPR called the book an "ambitious and perplexing debut" that "sits somewhere on the border of thriller and speculative fiction, morbid and action-packed and existential and utterly resistant to categorization". [5]
The next week, the book was the 6th sold among fiction novels on Amazon. [10] It debuted at No. 5 on the USA Today bestseller list. [11] On The Wall Street Journal fiction bestseller list, the book debuted at No. 2. [12] In the first week of release, The Trials of Apollo series was No. 2 on The New York Times bestseller list. [13]
The Guardian called Vicious "a brilliant exploration of the superhero mythos and a riveting revenge thriller". [3] It received a starred review from Publishers Weekly, which called Schwab's characters "vital and real, never reduced to simple archetypes" and praised the book as "a rare superhero novel as epic and gripping as any classic comic". [4]
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On Books in the Media, the book was rated 4.09 out of 5, based on four critic reviews. [9] In the July/August 2021 issue of Bookmarks, the book was scored four out of five. The magazine's critical summary reads: "Still, Great Circle is a smart, curious, and entertaining portrait of a changing 20th century". [10] [11]