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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 Smithsonian Institution - United States National Museum - Bulletin 240 Contribut Anonymous 3000 5000 8000 12000 16000 22000 132745
    (331)
    17.9 1.72 15.0 42.8 11.7
    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 Soap-Making Manual A Practical Handbook on the Raw Materials, Their Manipulation Thomssen, E. G. 4000 7000 14000 17000 18000 22000 59096
    (147)
    9.9 1.67 10.7 55.9 7.9
    Details Something New Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) 1881 1975 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 17000 73645
    (184)
    12.8 1.47 9.1 69.9 6.7
    Details Songs of Innocence and Experience Blake, William 1757 1827 4000 5000 8000 10000 12000 15000 5549
    (13)
    18.8 1.31 8.8 77.1 7.2
    Details Sons and Lovers Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert) 1885 1930 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 16000 158692
    (396)
    9.8 1.38 6.4 80.6 4.4
    Details South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir 1874 1922 2000 4000 8000 10000 14000 17000 144681
    (361)
    17.8 1.47 11.0 64.4 8.7
    Details Southern Horrors Lynch Law in All Its Phases Wells-Barnett, Ida B. 1862 1931 3000 4000 7000 10000 11000 16000 9490
    (23)
    22.0 1.56 13.9 52.8 11.4
    Details Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I Spenser, Edmund 1552 1599 4000 7000 12000 15000 20000 24000 70160
    (175)
    17.3 1.43 10.4 68.1 8.1
    Details Sport Royal and other stories Hope, Anthony 1863 1933 2000 4000 7000 9000 13000 21000 27491
    (68)
    10.4 1.48 8.3 70.8 6.0
    Details Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Bes 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 20000 146705
    (366)
    15.3 1.43 9.6 70.6 7.2
    Details Steam, Its Generation and Use Babcock & Wilcox Company 3000 4000 7000 10000 15000 20000 120558
    (301)
    9.8 1.67 10.7 56.0 7.9
    Details Stories from Hans Andersen Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian) 1805 1875 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 16000 36988
    (92)
    18.2 1.34 9.4 75.1 7.3
    Details Strictures on Nullification Everett, Alexander Hill 3000 3000 6000 8000 9000 14000 30117
    (75)
    36.3 1.66 22.0 29.6 18.2
    Details Struwwelpeter: Merry Stories and Funny Pictures Hoffmann, Heinrich 1809 1894 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 14000 2343
    (5)
    14.7 1.27 6.8 84.1 5.2
    Details Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenome Ellis, Havelock 1859 1939 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 19000 133904
    (334)
    23.8 1.71 17.1 38.2 13.8
    Details Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion Ellis, Havelock 1859 1939 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 162979
    (407)
    21.7 1.68 15.6 42.9 12.7
    Details Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition Thomas, Aquinas, Saint 1225 1274 3000 4000 6000 11000 13000 20000 486564
    (1216)
    17.0 1.55 12.7 58.7 9.3
    Details Supply and Demand Henderson, Hubert Douglas, Sir 1890 1952 3000 3000 5000 7000 9000 15000 50755
    (126)
    23.5 1.61 15.9 46.8 12.6
    Details Surgical Anatomy Maclise, Joseph 5000 10000 16000 20000 22000 25000 106499
    (266)
    18.9 1.7 15.7 43.8 11.9
    Details Swann's Way Proust, Marcel Scott-Moncrieff, C. K. (Charles Kenneth) 1871 (1889) 1922 (1930) 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 17000 194407
    (486)
    36.0 1.47 18.7 45.6 15.8
    Details Swiss Family Robinson Wyss, Johann David 1743 1818 3000 5000 7000 10000 12000 20000 126097
    (315)
    24.6 1.47 14.0 57.9 11.3
    Details Symbolic Logic Carroll, Lewis 1832 1898 3000 4000 8000 11000 14000 17000 46466
    (116)
    8.4 1.53 8.2 68.5 5.8
    Details Symposium Plato Jowett, Benjamin 427BC (1817) 347BC (1893) 2000 3000 6000 9000 11000 18000 32513
    (81)
    31.4 1.49 17.4 49.1 14.2
    Details Synopsis of Jewish History From the Return of the Jews from the Babylonish Capti Henry, Henry A. 3000 5000 8000 10000 12000 17000 40370
    (100)
    27.5 1.59 17.7 44.1 13.9
    Details Tales of Folk and Fairies Pyle, Katharine 1863 1938 2000 4000 6000 9000 12000 21000 54127
    (135)
    17.5 1.29 8.6 79.7 6.5
    Details Tales of Terror and Mystery Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 17000 74652
    (186)
    18.2 1.47 11.3 64.2 8.8
    Details Tales of the Jazz Age Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott) 1896 1940 3000 5000 8000 10000 12000 19000 85222
    (213)
    13.4 1.49 9.3 67.4 7.2
    Details Tartuffe Or, the Hypocrite Molière Page, Curtis Hidden 1622 (1870) 1673 (1946) 2000 4000 8000 11000 12000 18000 18064
    (45)
    15.4 1.39 8.7 73.3 6.9
    Details Tarzan of the Apes Burroughs, Edgar Rice 1875 1950 3000 5000 7000 10000 12000 16000 84994
    (212)
    19.6 1.45 11.4 64.4 9.1
    Details Tender Buttons Objects—Food—Rooms Stein, Gertrude 1874 1946 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 14968
    (37)
    15.1 1.46 9.3 68.2 7.5
    Details Tenting on the Plains or General Custer in Kansas and Texas Custer, Elizabeth B. 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 19000 136367
    (340)
    27.0 1.49 15.2 53.3 12.5
    Details Tess of the d'Urbervilles, a Pure Woman Hardy, Thomas 1840 1928 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 18000 147161
    (367)
    18.3 1.45 11.1 65.7 8.6
    Details Textiles and Clothing Watson, Kate Heintz 4000 5000 10000 12000 15000 23000 41633
    (104)
    17.9 1.52 11.6 59.8 9.4
    Details The 2010 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency 3000 5000 8000 12000 15000 24000 1297237
    (3243)
    13.8 2.0 16.9 23.4 13.4
    Details The 30,000 Dollar Bequest and Other Stories Twain, Mark 1835 1911 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 17000 93327
    (233)
    18.8 1.47 11.6 63.5 9.1
    Details The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 3000 7000 9000 12000 16000 11304
    (28)
    14.1 1.46 9.7 68.8 7.2
    Details The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 3000 5000 8000 9000 16000 10626
    (26)
    11.6 1.46 8.5 71.9 6.1
    Details The Adventure of the Cardboard Box Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 3000 5000 7000 9000 14000 8609
    (21)
    16.7 1.41 9.7 70.6 7.6
    Details The Adventure of the Devil's Foot Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 9893
    (24)
    16.6 1.48 10.8 64.8 8.3
    Details The Adventure of the Dying Detective Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 15000 5730
    (14)
    10.4 1.43 7.6 75.0 5.4
    Details The Adventure of the Red Circle Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 3000 6000 9000 9000 14000 7197
    (17)
    11.7 1.41 7.9 75.5 5.6
    Details The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer's Comrade Twain, Mark 1835 1911 1000 3000 6000 9000 12000 21000 108599
    (271)
    18.5 1.3 8.7 78.1 7.0
    Details The Adventures of Robin Hood Pyle, Howard 1853 1911 4000 6000 11000 15000 20000 22000 110924
    (277)
    22.3 1.31 10.1 73.7 8.5
    Details The Adventures of Sally Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) 1881 1975 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 17000 76500
    (191)
    12.1 1.46 8.5 70.8 6.4
    Details The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 16000 103757
    (259)
    14.9 1.43 9.3 70.8 7.1
    Details The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Twain, Mark 1835 1911 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 69729
    (174)
    14.3 1.4 8.6 74.1 6.5
    Details The Aeneid English Virgil Dryden, John 70BC (1631) 19BC (1700) 4000 6000 10000 13000 16000 23000 106024
    (265)
    24.5 1.34 11.8 68.2 9.8
    Details The Aesop for Children With pictures by Milo Winter Aesop 620BC 563BC 2000 5000 7000 9000 11000 17000 27122
    (67)
    15.7 1.33 8.5 78.2 6.3
    Details The Affair at the Inn Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith 1856 1923 2000 4000 7000 9000 13000 17000 33539
    (83)
    18.1 1.46 10.9 64.8 8.7

    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.