Collider writer Jeremy Urquhart has published a ranked list of what he considers the ten best "epic" books of all time, judging entries on both their length and their literary quality. The piece argues that sheer page count alone does not make a book an epic; the scope, ambition and craft of the storytelling matter just as much, and the featured titles are said to combine both quantity and quality. Most of the chosen works are standalone novels, though some multipart stories are also included.

The visible portion of the article details only the lower end of the countdown. At number 10 is Don DeLillo's Underworld (1997), an unusually long work for the author that spans the second half of 20th-century America, opening with the 1951 "Shot Heard 'Round the World" before moving between the 1990s and the 1950s across many characters and tangents. At number nine is Stephen King's The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower (2004), described as one of the author's longest and finest books, with King noted as a writer well suited to epic-length storytelling.