Chris Hewitt, The Minnesota Star Tribune

If it seems like books and movies get longer each fall, it’s not just your imagination.

Publishers and Hollywood execs figure we spend more time indoors as the temperatures start to dip and that we have more bandwidth to immerse ourselves in books and movies that require (or think they require) a little extra space to unveil their stories. With beach reads behind us, fall also tends to be a bit more serious, so it’s the likeliest time to find more leisurely paced awards contenders on screen and on the page.

Right on trend, doorstoppers are on the way later this fall from National Book Award winners Thomas Pynchon and Adam Johnson. While bookstores wait for them to arrive, we have two 700-pagers in our lineup of books we can’t wait to read this mo

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