, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Darger#In_the_Realms_of_the_Unreal, Flash fiction is anything from 100 to 500 words, A short story is usually anything from 1,000 to 8,000 words, but many are often longer, A novella is usually between 20,000 and 50,000 words, The average novel is usually between 80,000 and 100,000 words, An epic novel is anything over 110,000 words, Eragon, Christopher Paolini – 157,000 words, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – 76,944 words, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – 85,141 words, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – 107,253 words, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – 190,637 words, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – 257,045 words, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – 168,923 words, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – 198,227 words. The ultimate measure of a story’s size is its wordcount, however, so the literary geeks here at Foster Grant have put together a list of many of the most popular books and short stories in history for you. 177,679 – The Poisonwood Bible – Kingsolver, Barbara theme: Serena, by Kay Belardinelli. Naipaul This is the book that inspired my current story (although it’s like 99% not even remotely recognizable compared to Cooper’s). Martin – 424,000 words ( source) A Dance of Dragons by George R.R. 591,554 – A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth, Tags: books, literature, NaNoWriMo, word count, writing. 169,441 – Half Blood Prince – JK Rowling Lewis 49,459 – Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut The best book I have ever read. 78,462 – The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde When writing a longer book that is aimed at 12-year-olds (and could maybe be considered "tween"), using the term "upper middle grade" is advisable. 260,742 – Cloudsplitter – Banks, Russell 119,529 – My Sisters Keeper – Jodi Picoult What follows is a rough guide to book length expectations in certain genres. Ignoring the greats for a moment, the obvious answer to the first question is: it depends. 183,833 – Little Women (Books 1&2) – Louisa May Alcott 166,622 – Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe There are several methods for determining the word count of a given book. Also, you should include Sironia, Texas (Madison Cooper, 1952) at a staggering 840,000 words. Let's take a look at a few examples. Eragon, Christopher Paolini – 157,000 words Word Counts for Children, MG, YA, and Adult books, by genre August 7, 2017 August 3, 2018 / sarahnicolas I’ve been getting a lot of word count questions from Pitch Wars hopefuls, so I though I’d write everything out in a post for ease and convenience. Goblet of Fire – 190,858 156,154 – Watership Down – Richard Adams 66,556 – The Color Purple – Alice Walker Book Word Count Ranges by Genre Fiction Micro Fiction: 5 to 350 words. So yeah, when all is said and done I’ll have most of the words of the entire Harry Potter series. The novel that I’m writing is at 53,000 words and I was trying to figure out how many words is average for a book of my genre. Fantasy readers usually expect all their books to be epic. The average word count for a typical novel ranges anywhere from 70,000 to 120,000 words, with the average hanging around 90,000. They have been adapted into eight feature films, each of which has grossed millions of dollars at the box office. 123,378 – Atonement – Ian McEwan 587,287 – War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy YA books around 55,000-80,000. 95,022 – The Hobbit – J. R. R. Tolkien 22,416 – The Mouse and the Motorcycle – Beverly Cleary 63,766 – Brave New World – Aldous Huxley Learn how your comment data is processed. Millions of copies have been sold in multiple countries and the books have been translated into many different languages. 112,815 – The Golden Compass – Philip Pullman So, most of the famous fantasy novels are over 110,000 words – although there are a few exceptions… 1. One thing that seems to connect all books considered ‘literary’ is that they are all considered to be intelligently written. 169,389 – White Teeth – Zadie Smith Word count for famous novels, in ascending order by number of words. 174,269 – Catch-22 – Joseph Heller Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace – 543,709 words ( source) A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke – 308,931 words 2. Also, here’s another list I may swipe and add in here. You have two totals for To Kill a Mockingbird. Source The top word count from wikipedia as it was not available in the other source. Even with the wiggle room allowed by eBooks, authors follow commonly-accepted book word count norms: Kindle Singles (short-format eBooks): 5,000 – 30,000 words; Short Stories: 5,000+ words; Nonfiction: 10,000+ words; Novels: 50,000+ words; Why not just measure by page count? Really puts everything into perspective. 0161-7370 349,736 – Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy The word counts by book type vary slightly based on what industry expert or organization you go by. After a few recalculations over the following few weeks I finally had it worked out. 206,052 – Moby Dick – Herman Melville The Hobbit – 95,022 Half Blood Prince – 169,441 The word per page count has gone up some since then, but only by happenstance as I stopped using line breaks to denote the passage of time…and it will go up slightly more when I go back and remove the one I used prior to that. 73,404 – The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. 130,460 – War Trash – Jin, Ha 80,398 – The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett Hinton 145,469 – Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper The wheel of time is a fantasy series with over 4 million words, DrRandy, I believe that In The Reals of the Unreal by Henry Darger would be classified as a fantasy novel in English. If you liked Electric Literature’s Game of Books infographic that compared the length of A Song of Ice and Fire to classic novels, you might enjoy this infographic created for Cartridge Discount. 145,265 – Cold Sassy Tree – Olive Ann Burns We, as readers, feel most comfortable reading books within the range we’re used to–the length of time it takes to read 80,000-100,000 words. The average nonfiction book is about 50,000 to 75,000 words, which is about 153 to 230 ebook pages. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Image credit: Cartridge Discount. 134,462 – The Return of the King – J. R. R. Tolkien 119,394 – Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen 67,606 – Ironweed – Kennedy, William I use Microsoft Word and a print page is different then a book page. 225,395 – East of Eden – John Steinbeck (Better to have solid, clear information than rambling to make a page count.) Make sure you take a look at our range of reading glasses if you need a little help reading your next book! I believe night ‘s dawn by Peter F. Hamilton has 1.25 million words and exceeds the longest story here mentioned. 138,098 – Snow Falling on Cedars – Guterson, David Literary fiction 55-100,000. The Lord of the Rings – 455,125 For a ballpark figure, you have approximately 10,000 words per 50 pages of manuscript IF you are using 12pt font and 1 inch margins and doublespaced. 50,000 =========== NaNoWriMo Winners Romance: 65,000–80,000 words (Most romance imprints have specific word count requirements that writers should know and observe before they submit.) 155,887 – Emma – Jane Austen The word count that your computer gives you is not a standard word count like they use in publishing. 364,153 – The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoyevsky 84,799 – Chamber of Secrets – JK Rowling 103,090 – A Distant Shore – Phillips, Caryl This was so helpful! 1999 and 2000, or Jan 1999 and Dec 2000: ISBN: Return books with the ISBN: e.g. Are they all that accurate? 89,297 – Waiting – Jin, Ha 106,821 – Prisoner of Azkaban – JK Rowling 177,227 – The Fellowship of the Ring – J. R. R. Tolkien 83,774 – Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton You can learn many things, feel emotions you’ve never felt before, and understand how other people can see the world more. 56,695 – As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner So, most of the famous fantasy novels are over 110,000 words – although there are a few exceptions…. May I please use them in my new poetry book called “Everlasting Love” (it’s all about the Lord Jesus) Can I please give an acknowledgement to you. There are a number of factors deciding the word count, topmost being what sort of book it is: Picture books can be 100-1,000. I was fascinated by the word count of the books in the Bible. When I started to work on novels I wanted to keep an estimate of how many words and book pages. 88,942 – Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell 197,517 – Stones from the River – Hegi, Ursula 190,858 – Goblet of Fire – JK Rowling A PDF, or Portable Document Format, is a type of document format that doesn't depend on the operating system used to create it. Age: 14-adult.Y.A books have a teenage protagonist, but if you want to write Y.A you should be aware that the majority of readers are actually adults.Word Count: Less than 70,000 unless fantasy/ sci-fi/ supernatural, which can be longer, max 90,000. PS. Based on this list compiled by Nicole Humphrey Cook. 145,092 – A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith 257,154 – Order of the Phoenix – JK Rowling The number of pages also doesn’t help much, as publishers use different typefaces, page sizes, font sizes, etc. A minimum count for a nonfiction ebook is about 10,000 words, as long as the content is solid. 127,776 – Life on the Mississippi – Mark Twain The word count – 788,280 is based on the KJV and seems to be almost exactly as we’d expect (see our page on How Many Words in the Bible for more information on this). Remembrance Rock: 530,030 2. 35,968 – Old Yeller – Fred Gipson First off, it’s important to be able to tell the difference between a novel and a novella, a short story and a piece of flash fiction. Stephen King Word Count 11/22/63 - 274,672 Bag of Bones - 203,313 Black House - 252,270 Blockade Billy - 15,917 Carrie - 60,718 Cell - 121,931 Christine - 193,602 Cujo - 121,150 Cycle of the Werewolf - 15,955 Desperation - 195,011 Doctor Sleep -… Well, this, Infinite Jest and The Mezzanine. The Return of the King – 134,462, Other Famous Books 99,277 – All the Pretty Horses – Cormac McCarthy However, there are averages and rough word counts expected by publishers. If you’re a big reader then you’ve probably read a mixture of very short and very long books in your lifetime. 82,762 – Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank Sharp Objects has a word count of 80,565 and my utility calculates it at 80,137. Right now I’ve got 394,124 words. 66,950 – Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson 109,571 – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain Interesting. 68,410 – Drinking Coffee Elsewhere – Packer, ZZ If you’re working on a novel-length book, aim for 50,000 words at the very least — but it’s better to aim for 90,000. Otherwise, this is a good illustration of the effort needed to "overtake" a specific series. 67,707 – The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway And you’ve probably wondered how long some of your favourite stories are. Need to grow this dataset. Martin – 422,000 words ( source) Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell – 418,053 words ( source) Book one of the series, _The Dragonbone Chair_, is 288,840, and book two, _Stone of Farewell_, is 282,750, making the total count for _Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn_ 1,091,590. 59,900 – Lord of the Flies – William Golding 72,071 – White Fang – Jack London “Big Things” Daytrip to Louisville, Kentucky. Literary fiction is a slightly difficult genre to define sometimes, as it tends to contain a mixture of all genres. 144,523 – One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez Children’s Picture Books: 400 to 800 words Word count matters. Salinger 77,325 – Philosopher’s Stone – JK Rowling 316,059 – Middlemarch – George Eliot 61,922 – All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Remarque There are some variations between versions with included/excluded text and verses, however, for the purpose of establishing the relative lengths of each book, these counts are very helpful. 311,596 – The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand The actual word count for The Hunger Games is 99,750 and my utility calculates 94,743 words. Of course, figures differ depending on which publisher you ask, so the following figures are merely approximations derived from various sources. 236,061 – A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving 99,121 – To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee But while the length of a novel is to a large extent up to its writer, lengths may also vary by subgenre; many chapter books for children start at a length of about 16,000 words, and a typical mystery novel might be in the 60,000 to 80,000 word range while a thriller could be well over 100,000 words. Books that can be read by many ages are called cross-over books. 46,118 – Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury Jane Eyre: 183,858 6. If you are currently working on your manuscript, you've probably wondered how long your book should be or what the word count of your manuscript should be. 365,712 – Lonesome Dove – McMurtry, Larry 211,591 – Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky My current WIP is young adult, so I compiled a somewhat random list of YA novels by debut authors and looked up the book’s word count. 30,644 – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl 42,715 – The Tequila Worm – Canales, Viola 97,364 – Anne of Green Gables – Lucy Maud Montgomery 87,846 – Pere Goriot – Honore de Balzac If you are an author of a book or know of a book's accurate wordcount, contact me. 82,370 – The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje As much as we would like to think we will happily read 250,000-word books or plunk down $16 for a 25,000-word book (really a novella), the truth is we tend not to. 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, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Darger#In_the_Realms_of_the_Unreal, Flash fiction is anything from 100 to 500 words, A short story is usually anything from 1,000 to 8,000 words, but many are often longer, A novella is usually between 20,000 and 50,000 words, The average novel is usually between 80,000 and 100,000 words, An epic novel is anything over 110,000 words, Eragon, Christopher Paolini – 157,000 words, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – 76,944 words, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – 85,141 words, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – 107,253 words, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – 190,637 words, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – 257,045 words, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – 168,923 words, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – 198,227 words. The ultimate measure of a story’s size is its wordcount, however, so the literary geeks here at Foster Grant have put together a list of many of the most popular books and short stories in history for you. 177,679 – The Poisonwood Bible – Kingsolver, Barbara theme: Serena, by Kay Belardinelli. Naipaul This is the book that inspired my current story (although it’s like 99% not even remotely recognizable compared to Cooper’s). Martin – 424,000 words ( source) A Dance of Dragons by George R.R. 591,554 – A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth, Tags: books, literature, NaNoWriMo, word count, writing. 169,441 – Half Blood Prince – JK Rowling Lewis 49,459 – Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut The best book I have ever read. 78,462 – The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde When writing a longer book that is aimed at 12-year-olds (and could maybe be considered "tween"), using the term "upper middle grade" is advisable. 260,742 – Cloudsplitter – Banks, Russell 119,529 – My Sisters Keeper – Jodi Picoult What follows is a rough guide to book length expectations in certain genres. Ignoring the greats for a moment, the obvious answer to the first question is: it depends. 183,833 – Little Women (Books 1&2) – Louisa May Alcott 166,622 – Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe There are several methods for determining the word count of a given book. Also, you should include Sironia, Texas (Madison Cooper, 1952) at a staggering 840,000 words. Let's take a look at a few examples. Eragon, Christopher Paolini – 157,000 words Word Counts for Children, MG, YA, and Adult books, by genre August 7, 2017 August 3, 2018 / sarahnicolas I’ve been getting a lot of word count questions from Pitch Wars hopefuls, so I though I’d write everything out in a post for ease and convenience. Goblet of Fire – 190,858 156,154 – Watership Down – Richard Adams 66,556 – The Color Purple – Alice Walker Book Word Count Ranges by Genre Fiction Micro Fiction: 5 to 350 words. So yeah, when all is said and done I’ll have most of the words of the entire Harry Potter series. The novel that I’m writing is at 53,000 words and I was trying to figure out how many words is average for a book of my genre. Fantasy readers usually expect all their books to be epic. The average word count for a typical novel ranges anywhere from 70,000 to 120,000 words, with the average hanging around 90,000. They have been adapted into eight feature films, each of which has grossed millions of dollars at the box office. 123,378 – Atonement – Ian McEwan 587,287 – War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy YA books around 55,000-80,000. 95,022 – The Hobbit – J. R. R. Tolkien 22,416 – The Mouse and the Motorcycle – Beverly Cleary 63,766 – Brave New World – Aldous Huxley Learn how your comment data is processed. Millions of copies have been sold in multiple countries and the books have been translated into many different languages. 112,815 – The Golden Compass – Philip Pullman So, most of the famous fantasy novels are over 110,000 words – although there are a few exceptions… 1. One thing that seems to connect all books considered ‘literary’ is that they are all considered to be intelligently written. 169,389 – White Teeth – Zadie Smith Word count for famous novels, in ascending order by number of words. 174,269 – Catch-22 – Joseph Heller Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace – 543,709 words ( source) A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke – 308,931 words 2. Also, here’s another list I may swipe and add in here. You have two totals for To Kill a Mockingbird. Source The top word count from wikipedia as it was not available in the other source. Even with the wiggle room allowed by eBooks, authors follow commonly-accepted book word count norms: Kindle Singles (short-format eBooks): 5,000 – 30,000 words; Short Stories: 5,000+ words; Nonfiction: 10,000+ words; Novels: 50,000+ words; Why not just measure by page count? Really puts everything into perspective. 0161-7370 349,736 – Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy The word counts by book type vary slightly based on what industry expert or organization you go by. After a few recalculations over the following few weeks I finally had it worked out. 206,052 – Moby Dick – Herman Melville The Hobbit – 95,022 Half Blood Prince – 169,441 The word per page count has gone up some since then, but only by happenstance as I stopped using line breaks to denote the passage of time…and it will go up slightly more when I go back and remove the one I used prior to that. 73,404 – The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. 130,460 – War Trash – Jin, Ha 80,398 – The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett Hinton 145,469 – Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper The wheel of time is a fantasy series with over 4 million words, DrRandy, I believe that In The Reals of the Unreal by Henry Darger would be classified as a fantasy novel in English. If you liked Electric Literature’s Game of Books infographic that compared the length of A Song of Ice and Fire to classic novels, you might enjoy this infographic created for Cartridge Discount. 145,265 – Cold Sassy Tree – Olive Ann Burns We, as readers, feel most comfortable reading books within the range we’re used to–the length of time it takes to read 80,000-100,000 words. The average nonfiction book is about 50,000 to 75,000 words, which is about 153 to 230 ebook pages. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Image credit: Cartridge Discount. 134,462 – The Return of the King – J. R. R. Tolkien 119,394 – Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen 67,606 – Ironweed – Kennedy, William I use Microsoft Word and a print page is different then a book page. 225,395 – East of Eden – John Steinbeck (Better to have solid, clear information than rambling to make a page count.) Make sure you take a look at our range of reading glasses if you need a little help reading your next book! I believe night ‘s dawn by Peter F. Hamilton has 1.25 million words and exceeds the longest story here mentioned. 138,098 – Snow Falling on Cedars – Guterson, David Literary fiction 55-100,000. The Lord of the Rings – 455,125 For a ballpark figure, you have approximately 10,000 words per 50 pages of manuscript IF you are using 12pt font and 1 inch margins and doublespaced. 50,000 =========== NaNoWriMo Winners Romance: 65,000–80,000 words (Most romance imprints have specific word count requirements that writers should know and observe before they submit.) 155,887 – Emma – Jane Austen The word count that your computer gives you is not a standard word count like they use in publishing. 364,153 – The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoyevsky 84,799 – Chamber of Secrets – JK Rowling 103,090 – A Distant Shore – Phillips, Caryl This was so helpful! 1999 and 2000, or Jan 1999 and Dec 2000: ISBN: Return books with the ISBN: e.g. Are they all that accurate? 89,297 – Waiting – Jin, Ha 106,821 – Prisoner of Azkaban – JK Rowling 177,227 – The Fellowship of the Ring – J. R. R. Tolkien 83,774 – Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton You can learn many things, feel emotions you’ve never felt before, and understand how other people can see the world more. 56,695 – As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner So, most of the famous fantasy novels are over 110,000 words – although there are a few exceptions…. May I please use them in my new poetry book called “Everlasting Love” (it’s all about the Lord Jesus) Can I please give an acknowledgement to you. There are a number of factors deciding the word count, topmost being what sort of book it is: Picture books can be 100-1,000. I was fascinated by the word count of the books in the Bible. When I started to work on novels I wanted to keep an estimate of how many words and book pages. 88,942 – Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell 197,517 – Stones from the River – Hegi, Ursula 190,858 – Goblet of Fire – JK Rowling A PDF, or Portable Document Format, is a type of document format that doesn't depend on the operating system used to create it. Age: 14-adult.Y.A books have a teenage protagonist, but if you want to write Y.A you should be aware that the majority of readers are actually adults.Word Count: Less than 70,000 unless fantasy/ sci-fi/ supernatural, which can be longer, max 90,000. PS. Based on this list compiled by Nicole Humphrey Cook. 145,092 – A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith 257,154 – Order of the Phoenix – JK Rowling The number of pages also doesn’t help much, as publishers use different typefaces, page sizes, font sizes, etc. A minimum count for a nonfiction ebook is about 10,000 words, as long as the content is solid. 127,776 – Life on the Mississippi – Mark Twain The word count – 788,280 is based on the KJV and seems to be almost exactly as we’d expect (see our page on How Many Words in the Bible for more information on this). Remembrance Rock: 530,030 2. 35,968 – Old Yeller – Fred Gipson First off, it’s important to be able to tell the difference between a novel and a novella, a short story and a piece of flash fiction. Stephen King Word Count 11/22/63 - 274,672 Bag of Bones - 203,313 Black House - 252,270 Blockade Billy - 15,917 Carrie - 60,718 Cell - 121,931 Christine - 193,602 Cujo - 121,150 Cycle of the Werewolf - 15,955 Desperation - 195,011 Doctor Sleep -… Well, this, Infinite Jest and The Mezzanine. The Return of the King – 134,462, Other Famous Books 99,277 – All the Pretty Horses – Cormac McCarthy However, there are averages and rough word counts expected by publishers. If you’re a big reader then you’ve probably read a mixture of very short and very long books in your lifetime. 82,762 – Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank Sharp Objects has a word count of 80,565 and my utility calculates it at 80,137. Right now I’ve got 394,124 words. 66,950 – Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson 109,571 – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain Interesting. 68,410 – Drinking Coffee Elsewhere – Packer, ZZ If you’re working on a novel-length book, aim for 50,000 words at the very least — but it’s better to aim for 90,000. Otherwise, this is a good illustration of the effort needed to "overtake" a specific series. 67,707 – The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway And you’ve probably wondered how long some of your favourite stories are. Need to grow this dataset. Martin – 422,000 words ( source) Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell – 418,053 words ( source) Book one of the series, _The Dragonbone Chair_, is 288,840, and book two, _Stone of Farewell_, is 282,750, making the total count for _Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn_ 1,091,590. 59,900 – Lord of the Flies – William Golding 72,071 – White Fang – Jack London “Big Things” Daytrip to Louisville, Kentucky. Literary fiction is a slightly difficult genre to define sometimes, as it tends to contain a mixture of all genres. 144,523 – One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez Children’s Picture Books: 400 to 800 words Word count matters. Salinger 77,325 – Philosopher’s Stone – JK Rowling 316,059 – Middlemarch – George Eliot 61,922 – All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Remarque There are some variations between versions with included/excluded text and verses, however, for the purpose of establishing the relative lengths of each book, these counts are very helpful. 311,596 – The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand The actual word count for The Hunger Games is 99,750 and my utility calculates 94,743 words. Of course, figures differ depending on which publisher you ask, so the following figures are merely approximations derived from various sources. 236,061 – A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving 99,121 – To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee But while the length of a novel is to a large extent up to its writer, lengths may also vary by subgenre; many chapter books for children start at a length of about 16,000 words, and a typical mystery novel might be in the 60,000 to 80,000 word range while a thriller could be well over 100,000 words. Books that can be read by many ages are called cross-over books. 46,118 – Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury Jane Eyre: 183,858 6. If you are currently working on your manuscript, you've probably wondered how long your book should be or what the word count of your manuscript should be. 365,712 – Lonesome Dove – McMurtry, Larry 211,591 – Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky My current WIP is young adult, so I compiled a somewhat random list of YA novels by debut authors and looked up the book’s word count. 30,644 – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl 42,715 – The Tequila Worm – Canales, Viola 97,364 – Anne of Green Gables – Lucy Maud Montgomery 87,846 – Pere Goriot – Honore de Balzac If you are an author of a book or know of a book's accurate wordcount, contact me. 82,370 – The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje As much as we would like to think we will happily read 250,000-word books or plunk down $16 for a 25,000-word book (really a novella), the truth is we tend not to. 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At times the readers of books may be interested in discovering how many words they read. Order of the Phoenix – 257,154 138,087 – Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe 138,138 – 20000 Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne If you let me have the wording that will … Once I got the pace locked in (roughly)…about 60 pages in or so…I suddenly stopped… “Wait a minute…” The original plan was 500 pages with the major midway plot point at around 300. Other Famous Books 22,416 – The Mouse and the Motorcycle – Beverly Cleary 30,644 – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl 35,968 – Old Yeller – Fred Gipson 36,363 – Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe – C.S. 67,203 – The Fault in Our Stars – John Green Until I discovered AR Book Finder, a site that will give you the word count for almost all novels. BTW, the longest biography ever written is the biography of Winston S. Churchill authored by Randolph Churchill (the first two volumes) and Martin Gilbert (the last six volumes). 198,901 – A House for Mr. Biswas – V.S. Here is what I found (in order from least words to most words). How many years of the character’s life was I going to tell and at what pacing? Traditionally, Artamène ou le Grand Cyrus, has been considered the longest novel, but has lately been surpassed by at least one novel, or two depending on the criterion used to determine the length. Deathly Hallows – 198,227, Lord of the Rings Sometimes you may need to be able to count the words of a PDF document. 216,020 – The Amazing Adventures of Kavelier and Clay – Chabon, Michael 107,349 – Gullivers Travels – Jonathan Swift Pretty impressive! Based on this list compiled by Nicole Humphrey Cook. 561,996 – Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand I think the daily totals, what you put out in work for a single day are important, what the length of the story is, in total, in unimportant, as a number. I settled on two volumes of 820 pages each using a smaller font that my initial 12pt. The longest fantasy novel in English is Tad Williams’s _To Green Angel Tower_, standing at 520,000 words. 47,094 – The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald 100,609 – Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card Of course, word count won’t matter if a story doesn’t ‘hook’ the target audience. For average word counts based on genre, see this handy reference. 36,363 – Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe – C.S. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. I’m currently overhauling the last 130 pages I’ve written thus far. 135,420 – A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens Prisoner of Azkaban – 106,821 455,125 – The Lord of the Rings – J. R. R. Tolkien Although I’ve taken inspiration from the other two books I wouldn’t be writing my current novel (my 3rd) if it wasn’t for Sironia, Texas. However, there are intelligent books in all genres, so literary fiction is really just the upper echelons of books considered ‘good’ by revered critics and academics. So, I did the math. Really puts the novel I’m currently writing into perspective. Coyne uses the Nanowrimo word-count length of 50,000 words for his examples, calling 50,000 words a good foundation to build upon. Word Count Of Famous Novels Reading novels is one of life’s pleasures – you can get immersed in a whole different world. (Thanks Nicole, and sorry for stealing; I wanted to see the list in order.) 58,428 – The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame 183,858 – Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë Philosopher’s Stone – 77,325 Chamber of Secrets – 84,799 © 2021 commonplacebook.com. 169,481 – The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinback Not all books fall into one exact age category. Children’s books can be 20-55,000. 112,737 – McTeague – Frank Norris From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This is a list of the novels over 500,000 words published through a mainstream publisher. 56,787 – A Separate Peace – John Knowles I have read it. 54,243 – The Hours – Cunningham, Michael 47,180 – The Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane 63,604 – The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne 161,511 – Cold Mountain – Charles Frazier Absolutely amazing. 48,523 – The Outsiders – S.E. 183,349 – Great Expectations – Charles Dickens 114,634 – Walden – Henry David Thoreau The eight Harry Potter books have an impressive combined word count of over 1 million words! 60,082 – The Dew Breaker – Danticat, Edwidge 1. 69,066 – The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain The graphic looks at the length of some famous novels, poems, and plays from literary history. Memoirs of a Geisha: 186,418 5. Is Black Company being separated into five "blocks" a matter of omnibus publications, or does this graph really only account for 5 out of 10 books?. Harry Potter Books Epic novels are works of fiction that are 110,000 words or over. Jade on March 15, 2012 7:10 pm. 91,419 – Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan 134,710 – Schindler’s List – Thomas Keneally 114,779 – The Tenth Circle – Jodi Picoult There are no hard-and-fast rules when it comes to what word count a novel in a particular genre should be. So if you send someone else a PDF, you don't have to worry about its being compatible with his word processing software. There are many writers who choose the more difficult path of convincing publishing professionals that the parameters should be stretched beyond the norm and that their manuscript justifies a larger word count. 198,227 – Deathly Hallows – JK Rowling 87,978 – Persuasion – Jane Austen Reading Length is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. Word count estimates are not guaranteed to be accurate. Working on my own and just hit 122,000 words. To get an accurate word count for your manuscript, take the CHARACTER count and divide by 5. 186,418 – Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden 84,845 – Gilead – Robinson, Marilynne The online journal, notebook and playground of Hawthorn Mineart, by Hawthorn Mineart, under Books, Writing. It’s finished when it’s finished, as my pop would say. Also, the individual totals for The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King do not total the number given for The Lord of the Rings — unless, of course, you’re counting the appendices at the end of The Return of the King as part of LotR but not TRotK.. 63,422 – Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf American Gods, Neil Gaiman – 183,222 words 3. 159,276 – The Kitchen God’s Wife – Amy Tan 155,960 – Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens I give you the word count (=how many words were used to write the book) and hints, YOU give the book. 418,053 – Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell To be fair though, I didn’t plan it this way. 107,945 – Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett – 65,113 words 4. To calculate the page count for a 5.5″ × 8.5″ book: 10 pt type – divide your word count by 475; 11 pt type – divide your word count by 425; 12 pt type – divide your word count by 350; To calculate the page count for a 6″ × 9″ book: 10 pt type – divide your word count by 600; 11 pt type – divide your word count … 70,957 – Woman Warrior – Maxine Hong Kingston How does 'Salem's Lot' break out? Now regarded as classics, these debut novels had to be edited to reduce them to these published word counts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Darger#In_the_Realms_of_the_Unreal. e.g. 82,143 – The Dark Is Rising – Cooper, Susan 0060930314: ISSN: Return serials with the ISSN: e.g. A lot yes, but I’d have 10x that if I wrote everything I’d come up with along the way. Examples: The 6-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway (Google it), Fleeing Complexity by Jon McGregor, Golden Years by Edith Pearlman, Widow’s First Year by Joyce Carol Oates. Lewis 42,715 – The Tequila Worm – Canales, Viola 46,118 – Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury How does 'Carrie' break out? 92,400 – Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison Gone with the Wind: 418,053 3. WORD COUNT FOR MIDDLE GRADE FICTION Middle grade is from 20,000 - 55,000, depending on the subject matter and age range, and the word count of these books has been trending up in recent years. I’ve read more Dramione fanfics than original Harry Potter books, I’ve just realised…, Wow….I’ve read fan fiction longer than the entire LOTR series….really puts things in perspective. And I’ve read web serials as long as 1.7M words. eBook Length is Measured in Word Count, Not Page Count. Cut, cut, cut and I’m still almost at 400,000…AND I’m only 37% of the way through. I’ve read Harry Potter fanfics longer than the entire original series… some which weren’t even finished. 59,635 – Black Beauty – Anna Sewell 157,665 – Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood 99,560 – Welcome to the Monkey House – Kurt Vonnegut I don’t have an exact word count, but Martin Gilbert’s obituary says they contain nine million words. 85,199 – The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera 208,773 – Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie 196,774 – The Corrections – Franzen, Jonathan Ebook Word Count by Genre. Fantasy readers usually expect all their books to be epic. 128,886 – The Yearling – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings There was a 0% chance that was going to happen if I kept up my then current pace. XHTML: You can use these tags:

, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Darger#In_the_Realms_of_the_Unreal, Flash fiction is anything from 100 to 500 words, A short story is usually anything from 1,000 to 8,000 words, but many are often longer, A novella is usually between 20,000 and 50,000 words, The average novel is usually between 80,000 and 100,000 words, An epic novel is anything over 110,000 words, Eragon, Christopher Paolini – 157,000 words, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – 76,944 words, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – 85,141 words, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – 107,253 words, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – 190,637 words, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – 257,045 words, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – 168,923 words, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – 198,227 words. The ultimate measure of a story’s size is its wordcount, however, so the literary geeks here at Foster Grant have put together a list of many of the most popular books and short stories in history for you. 177,679 – The Poisonwood Bible – Kingsolver, Barbara theme: Serena, by Kay Belardinelli. Naipaul This is the book that inspired my current story (although it’s like 99% not even remotely recognizable compared to Cooper’s). Martin – 424,000 words ( source) A Dance of Dragons by George R.R. 591,554 – A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth, Tags: books, literature, NaNoWriMo, word count, writing. 169,441 – Half Blood Prince – JK Rowling Lewis 49,459 – Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut The best book I have ever read. 78,462 – The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde When writing a longer book that is aimed at 12-year-olds (and could maybe be considered "tween"), using the term "upper middle grade" is advisable. 260,742 – Cloudsplitter – Banks, Russell 119,529 – My Sisters Keeper – Jodi Picoult What follows is a rough guide to book length expectations in certain genres. Ignoring the greats for a moment, the obvious answer to the first question is: it depends. 183,833 – Little Women (Books 1&2) – Louisa May Alcott 166,622 – Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe There are several methods for determining the word count of a given book. Also, you should include Sironia, Texas (Madison Cooper, 1952) at a staggering 840,000 words. Let's take a look at a few examples. Eragon, Christopher Paolini – 157,000 words Word Counts for Children, MG, YA, and Adult books, by genre August 7, 2017 August 3, 2018 / sarahnicolas I’ve been getting a lot of word count questions from Pitch Wars hopefuls, so I though I’d write everything out in a post for ease and convenience. Goblet of Fire – 190,858 156,154 – Watership Down – Richard Adams 66,556 – The Color Purple – Alice Walker Book Word Count Ranges by Genre Fiction Micro Fiction: 5 to 350 words. So yeah, when all is said and done I’ll have most of the words of the entire Harry Potter series. The novel that I’m writing is at 53,000 words and I was trying to figure out how many words is average for a book of my genre. Fantasy readers usually expect all their books to be epic. The average word count for a typical novel ranges anywhere from 70,000 to 120,000 words, with the average hanging around 90,000. They have been adapted into eight feature films, each of which has grossed millions of dollars at the box office. 123,378 – Atonement – Ian McEwan 587,287 – War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy YA books around 55,000-80,000. 95,022 – The Hobbit – J. R. R. Tolkien 22,416 – The Mouse and the Motorcycle – Beverly Cleary 63,766 – Brave New World – Aldous Huxley Learn how your comment data is processed. Millions of copies have been sold in multiple countries and the books have been translated into many different languages. 112,815 – The Golden Compass – Philip Pullman So, most of the famous fantasy novels are over 110,000 words – although there are a few exceptions… 1. One thing that seems to connect all books considered ‘literary’ is that they are all considered to be intelligently written. 169,389 – White Teeth – Zadie Smith Word count for famous novels, in ascending order by number of words. 174,269 – Catch-22 – Joseph Heller Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace – 543,709 words ( source) A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke – 308,931 words 2. Also, here’s another list I may swipe and add in here. You have two totals for To Kill a Mockingbird. Source The top word count from wikipedia as it was not available in the other source. Even with the wiggle room allowed by eBooks, authors follow commonly-accepted book word count norms: Kindle Singles (short-format eBooks): 5,000 – 30,000 words; Short Stories: 5,000+ words; Nonfiction: 10,000+ words; Novels: 50,000+ words; Why not just measure by page count? Really puts everything into perspective. 0161-7370 349,736 – Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy The word counts by book type vary slightly based on what industry expert or organization you go by. After a few recalculations over the following few weeks I finally had it worked out. 206,052 – Moby Dick – Herman Melville The Hobbit – 95,022 Half Blood Prince – 169,441 The word per page count has gone up some since then, but only by happenstance as I stopped using line breaks to denote the passage of time…and it will go up slightly more when I go back and remove the one I used prior to that. 73,404 – The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. 130,460 – War Trash – Jin, Ha 80,398 – The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett Hinton 145,469 – Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper The wheel of time is a fantasy series with over 4 million words, DrRandy, I believe that In The Reals of the Unreal by Henry Darger would be classified as a fantasy novel in English. If you liked Electric Literature’s Game of Books infographic that compared the length of A Song of Ice and Fire to classic novels, you might enjoy this infographic created for Cartridge Discount. 145,265 – Cold Sassy Tree – Olive Ann Burns We, as readers, feel most comfortable reading books within the range we’re used to–the length of time it takes to read 80,000-100,000 words. The average nonfiction book is about 50,000 to 75,000 words, which is about 153 to 230 ebook pages. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Image credit: Cartridge Discount. 134,462 – The Return of the King – J. R. R. Tolkien 119,394 – Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen 67,606 – Ironweed – Kennedy, William I use Microsoft Word and a print page is different then a book page. 225,395 – East of Eden – John Steinbeck (Better to have solid, clear information than rambling to make a page count.) Make sure you take a look at our range of reading glasses if you need a little help reading your next book! I believe night ‘s dawn by Peter F. Hamilton has 1.25 million words and exceeds the longest story here mentioned. 138,098 – Snow Falling on Cedars – Guterson, David Literary fiction 55-100,000. The Lord of the Rings – 455,125 For a ballpark figure, you have approximately 10,000 words per 50 pages of manuscript IF you are using 12pt font and 1 inch margins and doublespaced. 50,000 =========== NaNoWriMo Winners Romance: 65,000–80,000 words (Most romance imprints have specific word count requirements that writers should know and observe before they submit.) 155,887 – Emma – Jane Austen The word count that your computer gives you is not a standard word count like they use in publishing. 364,153 – The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoyevsky 84,799 – Chamber of Secrets – JK Rowling 103,090 – A Distant Shore – Phillips, Caryl This was so helpful! 1999 and 2000, or Jan 1999 and Dec 2000: ISBN: Return books with the ISBN: e.g. Are they all that accurate? 89,297 – Waiting – Jin, Ha 106,821 – Prisoner of Azkaban – JK Rowling 177,227 – The Fellowship of the Ring – J. R. R. Tolkien 83,774 – Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton You can learn many things, feel emotions you’ve never felt before, and understand how other people can see the world more. 56,695 – As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner So, most of the famous fantasy novels are over 110,000 words – although there are a few exceptions…. May I please use them in my new poetry book called “Everlasting Love” (it’s all about the Lord Jesus) Can I please give an acknowledgement to you. There are a number of factors deciding the word count, topmost being what sort of book it is: Picture books can be 100-1,000. I was fascinated by the word count of the books in the Bible. When I started to work on novels I wanted to keep an estimate of how many words and book pages. 88,942 – Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell 197,517 – Stones from the River – Hegi, Ursula 190,858 – Goblet of Fire – JK Rowling A PDF, or Portable Document Format, is a type of document format that doesn't depend on the operating system used to create it. Age: 14-adult.Y.A books have a teenage protagonist, but if you want to write Y.A you should be aware that the majority of readers are actually adults.Word Count: Less than 70,000 unless fantasy/ sci-fi/ supernatural, which can be longer, max 90,000. PS. Based on this list compiled by Nicole Humphrey Cook. 145,092 – A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith 257,154 – Order of the Phoenix – JK Rowling The number of pages also doesn’t help much, as publishers use different typefaces, page sizes, font sizes, etc. A minimum count for a nonfiction ebook is about 10,000 words, as long as the content is solid. 127,776 – Life on the Mississippi – Mark Twain The word count – 788,280 is based on the KJV and seems to be almost exactly as we’d expect (see our page on How Many Words in the Bible for more information on this). Remembrance Rock: 530,030 2. 35,968 – Old Yeller – Fred Gipson First off, it’s important to be able to tell the difference between a novel and a novella, a short story and a piece of flash fiction. Stephen King Word Count 11/22/63 - 274,672 Bag of Bones - 203,313 Black House - 252,270 Blockade Billy - 15,917 Carrie - 60,718 Cell - 121,931 Christine - 193,602 Cujo - 121,150 Cycle of the Werewolf - 15,955 Desperation - 195,011 Doctor Sleep -… Well, this, Infinite Jest and The Mezzanine. The Return of the King – 134,462, Other Famous Books 99,277 – All the Pretty Horses – Cormac McCarthy However, there are averages and rough word counts expected by publishers. If you’re a big reader then you’ve probably read a mixture of very short and very long books in your lifetime. 82,762 – Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank Sharp Objects has a word count of 80,565 and my utility calculates it at 80,137. Right now I’ve got 394,124 words. 66,950 – Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson 109,571 – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain Interesting. 68,410 – Drinking Coffee Elsewhere – Packer, ZZ If you’re working on a novel-length book, aim for 50,000 words at the very least — but it’s better to aim for 90,000. Otherwise, this is a good illustration of the effort needed to "overtake" a specific series. 67,707 – The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway And you’ve probably wondered how long some of your favourite stories are. Need to grow this dataset. Martin – 422,000 words ( source) Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell – 418,053 words ( source) Book one of the series, _The Dragonbone Chair_, is 288,840, and book two, _Stone of Farewell_, is 282,750, making the total count for _Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn_ 1,091,590. 59,900 – Lord of the Flies – William Golding 72,071 – White Fang – Jack London “Big Things” Daytrip to Louisville, Kentucky. Literary fiction is a slightly difficult genre to define sometimes, as it tends to contain a mixture of all genres. 144,523 – One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez Children’s Picture Books: 400 to 800 words Word count matters. Salinger 77,325 – Philosopher’s Stone – JK Rowling 316,059 – Middlemarch – George Eliot 61,922 – All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Remarque There are some variations between versions with included/excluded text and verses, however, for the purpose of establishing the relative lengths of each book, these counts are very helpful. 311,596 – The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand The actual word count for The Hunger Games is 99,750 and my utility calculates 94,743 words. Of course, figures differ depending on which publisher you ask, so the following figures are merely approximations derived from various sources. 236,061 – A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving 99,121 – To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee But while the length of a novel is to a large extent up to its writer, lengths may also vary by subgenre; many chapter books for children start at a length of about 16,000 words, and a typical mystery novel might be in the 60,000 to 80,000 word range while a thriller could be well over 100,000 words. Books that can be read by many ages are called cross-over books. 46,118 – Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury Jane Eyre: 183,858 6. If you are currently working on your manuscript, you've probably wondered how long your book should be or what the word count of your manuscript should be. 365,712 – Lonesome Dove – McMurtry, Larry 211,591 – Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky My current WIP is young adult, so I compiled a somewhat random list of YA novels by debut authors and looked up the book’s word count. 30,644 – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl 42,715 – The Tequila Worm – Canales, Viola 97,364 – Anne of Green Gables – Lucy Maud Montgomery 87,846 – Pere Goriot – Honore de Balzac If you are an author of a book or know of a book's accurate wordcount, contact me. 82,370 – The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje As much as we would like to think we will happily read 250,000-word books or plunk down $16 for a 25,000-word book (really a novella), the truth is we tend not to. 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