Suggestions please for a chunky book?

I love the bronze horseman trilogy.
Another vote for goldfinch too - so beautifully written.

The Lymond Chronicles - Dorothy Dunnett

Start with the second book (Queens Play), then go back to the first. Set in 16th century Scotland, England, France, Mediterranean and Russia, brilliant but troubled hero, beautifully written...

There are 6 books in the series, so should keep you going :)

Shantaram - mentioned already

Thorn Birds?

Gone with the wind

Stephen king - 11.22.63

Wally Lamb does v chunky but readable and compelling. I loved 'I know this much is true'

Oh forgot to add Patrick Rothfuss's Kingkiller books.

The Name of the Rose and Fucault's Pendelum bith by Umberto Eco.
Goldfinch by Donna Tart
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Maia by Richard Adams (who also wrote Watership Down) Maia is epic and most definitely an adult book though, not for children.
If you liked The Stand, you'll probably enjoy Swan Song by Robert McCammon. It's as if he and Stephen King were given the same brief for a post apocalypse "Battle of Good and Evil" epic and SK wrote the Stand and RM wrote Swan Song.

The Quincunx by Charles Palliser. 1248 pages. An epic read but gripping.... Creepy, weird and what an ending!

Roberto Bolano's 2666 is an amazing read and is almost 1000 pages. Other weighty books I've loved are War and Peace, Anna Karenina, Middlemarch, Life and Fate, Shantaram and A Suitable Boy. Some of Murakami's books are quite long as well if that's what you're looking for. Wind up bird chronicle and IQ84 spring to mind.

holmessweetholmes I was going to mention The Kingkiller Chronicles as well - also waiting impatiently for the third in the series.

For a definite doorstop book there's Clarissa by Samuel Richardson. Which, to be fair, I am only suggesting because it's one of those books where I keep thinking I will get through the damn thing one day! I first picked it up from the school library when I was about 14, after seeing the TV adaptation with Sean Bean. It's an epistolatory novel telling the story of a young woman being pressured by her family to marry an odious wealthy man she detests. Her virtuous reputation is such that she becomes the subject of a bet between a couple of disreputable men, and is eventually tricked into fleeing her home and putting herself under the protection of the untrustworthy and notorious rake Robert Lovelace.

I have made it about halfway through in the past, but it's nearly 1,500 pages long so I keep taking breaks to read something else, and now it has been so long since I picked it up I will have to start from the beginning again. Maybe I should set myself a challenge to actually finish it this year.

Fourth vote here for The Goldfinch (Tartt)

Oh yes:
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norell - long and engrossing

The Children's Book (Byatt)
Signature of All Things (Gilbert)
Suitable Boy (Seth)
Half of a Yellow Sun (Adichie)
East of Eden (Steinbeck)
Most books by Dickens especially David Copperfield
Telegraph Avenue (Chabon)

I could go on and on (War and Peace? ).

Shanteram
Gone with the Wind
Against a Dark Background by Iain M Banks (don't be put off by its Sci-fi ness)

Cryptonomicon. If you like that, then the Baroque trilogy also by Neal Stephenson.

Or Vanity Fair.

Yy to trying again with AK.

I read (most) of it on a 3 hour train journey and was gutted when I arrived at my destination as I was desperate to carry on reading! Must have been 20 years ago but the memory of reading it is so vivid.

War and Peace. Not as good as Anna Karenin imo, but longer.

vvviola do give AK another try, it's fantastic really . One of the books I tend to re-read most years.

A Suitable Boy is glorious. I read it years ago but still think about them all and what they might be doing. Those characters have stayed with me, like real people, much more than characters from most books.

I second those who said A Suitable Boy and Anna Karenina. I love AK - made me realise not all Russian books are like crime and punishment. Man I hate that book. Although actually saw a play version of it in past year and was v good. Also the Cairo trilogy by Mahfouz. Smoky, dusty, evocative trilogy all fairly chunky in themselves. Oh and the collected diaries of a provincial lady.

Oh, the Cazalet Chronicles is excellent. I'm listening to it on audiobook, a version read by Jill Balcon, and she's terrific.

Should keep you going for a while.

Also, they're not all really chunky, but I find Sarah Waters' novels good for reading in a oner; they're real page-turners and very satisfying.

Yes to Johnathan Strange and Mr Norell.
What about the Cazalet Chronicles?

Do you like fantasy? If so, I would thoroughly recommend The Kingkiller series by Patrick Rothfuss. Amazing books. First one is called 'The Name of the Wind'. Second is 'The Wise Man's Fear'. Third and final one is not yet published . They are huuuge tomes!

Philip Jose Farmers' Riverworld series

Quincunx is super chunky. :-) any of the trilogies by Robertson Davies - nice satisfying easy read as well!