I have been racking my brains over what to nominate under this topic and it is a bit slow going. One book keeps coming to mind though, it is a history and it is 684 pages (in paperback, excluding notes and index) but I think it may be of limited interest so a bit of a long shot; it may not even qualify as literature, however it is still in print over 35 years since publication and has been a best seller. It is arranged in four major sections which stand alone if wanted.
There is also a little personal story attached. Quite some years back (Yes, quite some
) I was flying with a client from NZ to Europe and he was engrossed in a book which he described to me. It was on sale in the Newark terminal en route and I immediately read it from cover to cover.
The Discoverers; A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself - Daniel J. Boorstin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Discoverers
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...he_Discoverers
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-discoverers (it doesn't seem to show on Amazon as an ebook here in NZ)[/url]