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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 His Last Bow Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 16000 6059
    (15)    		 12.9 1.43 8.1 73.2 6.3
    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 Good Old Songs We Used to Sing, '61 to '65 Oldroyd, Osborn H. (Osborn Hamiline) 1842 1930 4000 6000 9000 12000 14000 18000 6761
    (16)    		 12.9 1.39 7.6 75.9 5.9
    Details History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria in the Light of Recent Hall, H. R. (Harry Reginald) 1873 1930 3000 5000 7000 11000 15000 23000 113094
    (282)    		 27.4 1.61 17.3 43.2 14.0
    Details The Lost World Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 19000 75381
    (188)    		 17.0 1.47 10.9 65.2 8.4
    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 The Gully of Bluemansdyke And Other stories Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 4000 8000 10000 13000 19000 48890
    (122)    		 17.0 1.45 10.3 66.8 8.2
    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 Child's Day Hutchinson, Woods 1862 1930 1000 2000 5000 6000 8000 12000 40704
    (101)    		 18.9 1.3 9.3 78.1 7.1
    Details A Classification and Subject Index for Cataloguing and Arranging the Books and P Dewey, Melvil 1851 1931 5000 8000 12000 15000 18000 23000 11325
    (28)    		 9.2 2.13 16.5 17.7 13.1
    Details How to Live on 24 Hours a Day Bennett, Arnold 1867 1931 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 17000 12746
    (31)    		 17.8 1.51 11.7 61.0 9.2
    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 Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt Baikie, James 1866 1931 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 17000 26825
    (67)    		 27.7 1.39 14.0 61.2 11.6
    Details The Madman Gibran, Khalil 1883 1931 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 16000 7034
    (17)    		 17.5 1.36 9.1 74.3 7.2
    Details The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United Wells-Barnett, Ida B. 1862 1931 3000 5000 8000 10000 11000 16000 33314
    (83)    		 20.7 1.54 13.4 55.5 10.7
    Details The Wind in the Willows Grahame, Kenneth 1859 1932 2000 5000 7000 10000 12000 17000 57985
    (144)    		 18.1 1.41 10.2 69.4 8.1
    Details A Text-Book of the History of Painting Van Dyke, John Charles 1856 1932 3000 5000 8000 11000 15000 23000 70887
    (177)    		 14.4 1.71 12.8 47.9 10.2
    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 The Frontier in American History Turner, Frederick Jackson 1861 1932 3000 4000 6000 8000 10000 16000 112204
    (280)    		 24.6 1.7 17.3 38.2 14.0
    Details From sketch-book and diary Butler, Elizabeth 1846 1933 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 21000 34038
    (85)    		 23.5 1.51 13.6 55.4 11.4
    Details The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told Thomson, J. Arthur (John Arthur) 1861 1933 3000 5000 8000 12000 15000 20000 104277
    (260)    		 20.9 1.61 14.4 49.3 11.6
    Details The Prisoner of Zenda Hope, Anthony 1863 1933 2000 4000 6000 8000 11000 16000 53278
    (133)    		 13.7 1.38 8.1 75.9 6.1
    Details The Forsyte Saga - Complete Galsworthy, John 1867 1933 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 17000 313254
    (783)    		 14.3 1.43 9.1 71.7 6.8
    Details Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Script Talmage, James Edward 1862 1933 3000 6000 9000 12000 13000 18000 294595
    (736)    		 23.6 1.55 15.2 51.9 11.9
    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 Who Goes There! Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William) 1865 1933 3000 5000 7000 9000 12000 19000 72754
    (181)    		 12.0 1.47 8.7 70.2 6.4
    Details The King in Yellow Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William) 1865 1933 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 20000 71137
    (177)    		 15.5 1.46 9.6 68.0 7.6
    Details Bushido, the Soul of Japan Nitobe, Inazo 1862 1933 3000 6000 9000 11000 14000 19000 33042
    (82)    		 25.1 1.6 16.0 46.1 13.1
    Details How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, so Williams, Archibald 1871 1934 3000 5000 7000 10000 12000 20000 70756
    (176)    		 16.5 1.56 11.6 58.0 9.3
    Details The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir 1857 1934 3000 5000 8000 12000 15000 20000 98023
    (245)    		 23.6 1.44 13.3 61.2 10.6
    Details The Yellow Wallpaper Gilman, Charlotte Perkins 1860 1935 1000 2000 5000 8000 11000 15000 6023
    (15)    		 15.4 1.38 8.3 74.2 6.7
    Details Omens and Superstitions of Southern India Thurston, Edgar 1855 1935 3000 5000 10000 13000 16000 23000 93609
    (234)    		 21.1 1.55 13.6 54.1 10.9
    Details Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth Bradley, A. C. (Andrew Cecil) 1851 1935 3000 4000 7000 8000 11000 16000 165374
    (413)    		 21.2 1.53 13.7 56.2 10.7
    Details How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents a Bleyer, Willard Grosvenor 1873 1935 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 16000 134858
    (337)    		 19.9 1.58 13.6 52.7 10.9
    Details Herland Gilman, Charlotte Perkins 1860 1935 2000 3000 5000 7000 9000 15000 51298
    (128)    		 15.4 1.47 10.2 67.1 7.7
    Details Merlin A Poem Robinson, Edwin Arlington 1869 1935 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 17000 21993
    (54)    		 29.6 1.35 14.5 62.2 11.9
    Details A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago Sedgwick, Anne Douglas 1873 1935 2000 5000 8000 12000 15000 22000 27814
    (69)    		 22.9 1.47 12.8 59.5 10.7
    Details The Jungle Book Kipling, Rudyard 1865 1936 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 25000 50599
    (126)    		 15.9 1.33 8.1 78.1 6.3
    Details Palmistry for All Cheiro 1866 1936 2000 3000 6000 7000 10000 21000 41356
    (103)    		 28.5 1.51 16.3 50.3 13.3
    Details Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Mackenzie, Donald A. (Donald Alexander) 1873 1936 3000 5000 9000 11000 15000 22000 149754
    (374)    		 21.1 1.64 14.9 46.6 12.0
    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 Kim Kipling, Rudyard 1865 1936 3000 5000 10000 15000 16000 22000 103135
    (257)    		 12.6 1.42 7.8 73.9 6.1
    Details The Man Who Was Thursday, a nightmare Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) 1874 1936 2000 4000 7000 8000 11000 16000 57869
    (144)    		 16.2 1.46 10.3 67.1 7.9
    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 Wisdom of Father Brown Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) 1874 1936 2000 4000 7000 10000 14000 18000 71271
    (178)    		 19.1 1.47 11.4 63.2 9.2
    Details The jungle book Kipling, Rudyard 1865 1936 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 25000 51432
    (128)    		 16.6 1.34 8.4 76.7 6.7
    Details Just So Stories Kipling, Rudyard 1865 1936 2000 4000 8000 12000 16000 22000 28603
    (71)    		 17.3 1.38 9.0 72.8 7.4
    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 All Things Considered Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) 1874 1936 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 17000 59337
    (148)    		 21.3 1.54 13.6 54.7 10.9
    Details The Innocence of Father Brown Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) 1874 1936 2000 4000 8000 11000 15000 18000 78581
    (196)    		 17.7 1.46 10.9 65.5 8.5

    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.