On a long book now,
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt which won a Pulitzer in 2014.
https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/donna-tartt
My usual audio book is about 12 hours long -- this is more like 32!
I found I was a couple books behind on the Gilded Age Mysteries by Rosemary Simpson. One more before I'm caught up again!
https://www.goodreads.com/series/204...ed-age-mystery
I read
The Indigo Girl that was recommended in one of these threads. I had missed I think in the recommendation it was based on historical fact. It can be hard with modern sensibilities to have positive protagonists who also were slave owners. It is important to understand as well that women, regardless of color, had very few rights and opportunities and couldn't necessarily own any sort of property whether land or live.
Someone had mentioned T. Kingfisher, I enjoyed the fantasy novella
Nine Goblins, and then
What Moves the Dead, which is retelling of Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher. There are a couple more books but I'm not sure I'm going to go on with them at this point. Not quite the horror experience I'm looking for, but I'll check out other works by the author.