What is the biggest book you own?

[DollyKim]

I'm talking literally, page number, size, weight.

Not counting things like Bibles and religious texts, literature text books, or special coffee table editions. Just a regular old was meant to be published that way editions.

[kenaiqueen]

Too lazy right now to take a pic, but it would have to be my world atlas. It's old, beat up and well used.

[zirconmermaid]

I have a fantastic old dictionary that is about 7 inches thick.

[Tam I am]

Do the collected works of Sherlock Holmes count? It's nearly two foot tall and it's too heavy for me to actually read. ALL the stories are in there.

[oniakki]

I think this one is my biggest. Not sure it actually counts as it doesn't have any words inside, it's all maps. But it is hard back. It is relatively fairly thin at only about an inch and a quarter thick.

[Kirahfaye]

The year I was born, my sister was given a children's Bible verses book. It eventually became mine and is packed away somewhere. It's too big and too heavy and filled with far too realistic drawings for children (think Daniel in the lion den), but I've always loved it anyway.

[K2!]

Van Nostrand's Scientific Encyclopedia, 6th edition, 3069 pages, 9" x 12" x 4"

[WhiteDove01s]

Oboy, let's see... thickest would be my copy of Grey's Anatomy, wherever the hex-nuts it's gotten to... but it's otherwise nearly standard-paperback-small in the other dimensions. There's a book around here somewhere, light blue in color and with a title I can't recall at the moment that is a book of interesting historical newspaper covers and is about the size of a newspaper... but also less than an inch thick.

For all-around big ones it seems to be a tie between Parrots Of The World and The Mystic Warriors Of The Plains... but the illustrated parrot book is half an inch wider at 9.5x13x2 inches and 584 pages. There are thicker ones (the 1992 Physician's Desk Reference is a good 3" thick), but no others both thick and particularly big. These two have some heft to them, and if I was looking for a book to clobber an intruder with... it would probably involve either parrots or a study of native American religion and culture.

[Stormlight]

The book with most number of pages would proooobably be whichever Harry Potter book it is that’s the longest. lol I bought the entire series in hard cover from the bargain bins for like $5 a book. I used to love the bargain bins.

The biggest books I own in literal size would probably be the collected works of ElfQuest. Back in the 90s when they released the first several quests as fully-colored hardback graphic novels. There are like 8 volumes in the larger size (future volumes were released in smaller format). Also the Big ElfQuest Gatherum and the Wolfrider’s Guide to the World of ElfQuest.

[Kattriella]

I think my biggest book physically is the hardback edition of Towers of Midnight by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson. That, or the special, fancy edition of The Collected Works of Edgar Allen Poe I got like 10+ years ago. I haven't see it for a while to compare.