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    Vocabulary Coverage
    (Difficult: 98%, Appropriate: 99%)
    Conventional Readability Formula
    Title Author Translator Born Died 90% 95% 98% 99% 99.5% 99.9% Word Count (Pages) Words per Sentence Syllables per Word Fog Index Flesch Reading Ease Flesch-Kincaid
    Details The Mystery of the Pinckney Draught Nott, Charles C. 1827 1916 3000 4000 8000 9000 10000 17000 59403
    (148)
    24.7 1.63 17.1 43.9 13.3
    Details The War of the Worlds Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) 1866 1946 3000 5000 7000 9000 11000 16000 59603
    (149)
    18.2 1.49 11.1 62.4 9.1
    Details Black Beauty Sewell, Anna 1820 1878 1000 2000 5000 7000 9000 15000 59721
    (149)
    23.5 1.31 10.9 72.5 9.0
    Details Flappers and Philosophers Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott) 1896 1940 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 15000 59737
    (149)
    13.4 1.48 9.2 67.8 7.1
    Details The Red House Mystery Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander) 1882 1956 1000 2000 4000 5000 8000 12000 59849
    (149)
    10.4 1.41 7.4 77.2 5.1
    Details How to Analyze People on Sight Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five H Benedict, Ralph Paine 2000 4000 7000 12000 12000 21000 59865
    (149)
    19.9 1.57 13.6 54.1 10.7
    Details What's Wrong with the World Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) 1874 1936 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 17000 59904
    (149)
    22.5 1.55 14.2 52.8 11.5
    Details My Reminiscences Tagore, Rabindranath 1861 1941 3000 4000 8000 10000 13000 22000 60224
    (150)
    20.0 1.51 12.6 58.7 10.1
    Details The Princess of Cleves La Fayette, Madame de (Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne) 1634 1693 2000 4000 6000 9000 12000 15000 61526
    (153)
    56.6 1.45 26.7 27.1 23.5
    Details Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works Kalidasa Ryder, Arthur W. (Arthur William) (1877) (1938) 3000 5000 8000 10000 12000 17000 61590
    (153)
    14.2 1.49 9.7 66.8 7.5
    Details Beyond Good and Evil Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm Zimmern, Helen 1844 (1846) 1900 (1934) 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 18000 61977
    (154)
    32.8 1.65 19.9 33.7 16.7
    Details Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot Craig, Austin 1872 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 19000 62400
    (156)
    29.6 1.64 18.6 38.3 15.3
    Details Around the World in 80 Days Verne, Jules 1828 1905 3000 4000 8000 10000 13000 20000 62632
    (156)
    17.0 1.53 11.9 60.3 9.1
    Details The Critique of Practical Reason Kant, Immanuel Abbott, Thomas Kingsmill 1724 (1829) 1804 (1913) 3000 3000 6000 8000 12000 17000 62637
    (156)
    50.4 1.64 27.2 16.6 23.4
    Details Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess Fischer, Henry W. (Henry William) 1856 1932 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 19000 62978
    (157)
    16.5 1.54 11.3 59.5 9.0
    Details British Political Leaders Mc 1830 1912 3000 3000 6000 8000 10000 15000 63507
    (158)
    29.9 1.61 18.3 40.3 15.1
    Details The Awakening and Selected Short Stories Chopin, Kate 1850 1904 2000 4000 8000 10000 13000 20000 63540
    (158)
    14.5 1.47 9.8 67.9 7.4
    Details Orthodoxy Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) 1874 1936 3000 4000 7000 8000 10000 15000 63665
    (159)
    20.1 1.53 13.0 57.2 10.3
    Details The Greatest English Classic A Study of the King James Version of the Bible and Mc 3000 3000 6000 8000 10000 18000 63686
    (159)
    20.7 1.51 13.1 58.4 10.3
    Details Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught Comprising instructions in the selection and prep Rose, Joshua 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 17000 63754
    (159)
    17.0 1.53 11.8 60.1 9.1
    Details The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories Tolstoy, Leo, graf Tucker, Benjamin R. 1828 1910 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 16000 63962
    (159)
    17.1 1.47 11.0 65.1 8.4
    Details New Latin Grammar Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin) 1858 1921 7000 12000 20000 22000 23000 25000 63965
    (159)
    5.5 1.84 11.5 45.7 8.3
    Details Heretics Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) 1874 1936 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 16000 64184
    (160)
    21.1 1.55 13.8 54.0 11.0
    Details Dodo Wonders Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic) 1867 1940 2000 4000 9000 15000 15000 16000 64785
    (161)
    16.2 1.45 10.0 68.1 7.8
    Details Smoke Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich Garnett, Constance 1818 (1861) 1883 (1946) 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 18000 64820
    (162)
    18.1 1.52 12.2 60.0 9.4
    Details Edison's Conquest of Mars Serviss, Garrett Putman 1851 1929 3000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 64861
    (162)
    21.5 1.54 14.1 54.7 11.0
    Details Poems Every Child Should Know The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library 4000 6000 9000 13000 16000 22000 65413
    (163)
    18.0 1.35 9.2 74.4 7.3
    Details The Children of Odin The Book of Northern Myths Colum, Padraic 1881 1972 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 65423
    (163)
    15.9 1.3 7.8 80.6 6.0
    Details A Room with a View Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan) 1879 1970 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 18000 65560
    (163)
    11.3 1.45 8.3 72.5 5.9
    Details Theaetetus Plato Jowett, Benjamin 427BC (1817) 347BC (1893) 2000 3000 5000 7000 9000 15000 65641
    (164)
    23.9 1.53 15.2 53.2 11.8
    Details A Little Princess; being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first ti Burnett, Frances Hodgson 1849 1924 2000 3000 6000 7000 10000 15000 65747
    (164)
    13.9 1.4 8.5 74.1 6.4
    Details The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Franklin, Benjamin 1706 1790 2000 4000 6000 9000 12000 18000 65762
    (164)
    32.0 1.54 18.0 44.5 15.0
    Details The History of The Hen Fever A Humorous Record Burnham, George P. 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 18000 66073
    (165)
    17.7 1.54 11.9 58.9 9.5
    Details Three Men in a Boat Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) 1859 1927 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 16000 66360
    (165)
    19.8 1.39 10.6 69.4 8.5
    Details Tom Wallis A Tale of the South Seas Becke, Louis 1855 1913 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 18000 66427
    (166)
    21.6 1.39 11.4 67.0 9.3
    Details A Summer's Outing and The Old Man's Story Harrison, Carter H. 3000 5000 8000 10000 12000 19000 66474
    (166)
    18.5 1.48 11.3 63.2 9.0
    Details Dubliners Joyce, James 1882 1941 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 17000 66695
    (166)
    14.3 1.43 9.0 71.7 6.8
    Details Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich West, Julius 1860 (1891) 1904 (1918) 2000 3000 5000 8000 11000 17000 66807
    (167)
    9.8 1.46 7.6 73.3 5.5
    Details Anarchism and Other Essays Goldman, Emma 1869 1940 3000 5000 7000 9000 11000 16000 67167
    (167)
    21.2 1.64 15.1 46.2 12.1
    Details The Beginner's American History Montgomery, D. H. (David Henry) 1837 1928 2000 3000 5000 6000 8000 13000 67333
    (168)
    13.6 1.47 9.6 68.8 7.0
    Details A Princess of Mars Burroughs, Edgar Rice 1875 1950 3000 4000 7000 10000 12000 19000 67354
    (168)
    28.6 1.5 15.5 51.3 13.2
    Details Treasure Island Stevenson, Robert Louis 1850 1894 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 19000 67669
    (169)
    17.9 1.35 9.3 74.3 7.3
    Details The Economic Consequences of the Peace Keynes, John Maynard 1883 1946 3000 3000 6000 9000 10000 16000 67762
    (169)
    26.4 1.67 17.9 38.9 14.4
    Details The First Men in the Moon Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) 1866 1946 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 21000 67768
    (169)
    15.6 1.49 10.2 65.2 8.0
    Details Treasure Island Stevenson, Robert Louis 1850 1894 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 19000 68147
    (170)
    17.8 1.35 9.3 74.2 7.3
    Details Man and Superman Shaw, Bernard 1856 1950 3000 5000 9000 14000 14000 18000 68390
    (170)
    12.1 1.51 9.4 66.6 7.0
    Details Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary Col Campbell, Douglas Houghton 1859 1953 4000 7000 13000 18000 21000 24000 68439
    (171)
    10.5 1.63 10.1 58.4 7.7
    Details Private Sex Advice to Women For Young Wives and those who Expect to be Married Armitage, R. B. 3000 4000 8000 10000 12000 17000 68583
    (171)
    27.3 1.68 18.3 37.4 14.8
    Details The Souls of Black Folk Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) 1868 1963 3000 5000 7000 9000 11000 17000 68801
    (172)
    25.9 1.53 14.9 51.3 12.5
    Details The Prince and the Pauper Twain, Mark 1835 1911 3000 5000 9000 12000 16000 24000 69129
    (172)
    40.3 1.43 19.6 44.9 17.0

    Notes:

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    Some of the born/died information of the authors and the translators of the wource data, catalog.rdf provided by the Project Gutenberg, have interrogation marks, which were stripped off in the table of this website for ease of processing the data.
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    The "Pages" shown in the parentheses at the "Word Count" are the results of the division of the "Word Count" by 400, where this website assumes a page of a book includes 400 words.