The Mirror and the Light (by Hilary Mantel)

The third book in the Wolf Hall trilogy! I think Bring Up the Bodies is still my favorite, but this is an amazing story, elegantly told. It begins with Anne Boleyn's beheading and ends with Cromwell's, and you really feel for him by the end despite everything. Oh that capricious Henry VIII!

This qualifies for three categories in the Read Harder Challenge, but for now I think I'm going to use it as "A doorstopper (over 500 pages) published after 1950, written by a woman."