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The length of books varies on different criteria and measuring the record of the longest book has always been in controversy.
The most common method of determining the length of the book is by counting the characters including number of spaces, written characters and punctuation.
Here is the list of longest books in the world
This book written by Arno Schmidt has a total of 1,496 pages with approximately 1,300,000 words.
The author Madeleine de Scudery completed this novel in 13,095 pages with 1,954,300 words. This romantic novel was originally published in 10 columns as a novel sequence.
Bahuleyan Jeyamohan wrote this modern day interpretation of the Indian classical epic Mahabharatha in 22,400 pages with the use of 2,300,000 words.
This novel by Marcel Proust is ratified by Guinness World Record as the longest novel ever written in 3,031 pages and with the use of around 1,267,069 words.