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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 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 Main Street Lewis, Sinclair 1885 1951 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 19000 164004
    (410)
    14.1 1.48 9.4 67.4 7.4
    Details The Chessmen of Mars Burroughs, Edgar Rice 1875 1950 2000 4000 7000 9000 10000 16000 87139
    (217)
    17.6 1.44 10.7 67.4 8.2
    Details Daddy-Long-Legs Webster, Jean 1876 1916 2000 4000 6000 8000 11000 16000 36296
    (90)
    14.5 1.47 9.3 67.5 7.5
    Details Carpentry for Boys In a Simple Language, Including Chapters on Drawing, Laying O Zerbe, James Slough 1850 3000 5000 9000 12000 16000 21000 37590
    (93)
    11.4 1.51 9.2 67.5 6.7
    Details Prestuplenie i nakazanie. English Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Garnett, Constance 1821 (1861) 1881 (1946) 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 15000 202487
    (506)
    14.3 1.47 10.0 67.6 7.4
    Details Famous Modern Ghost Stories 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 22000 93775
    (234)
    15.7 1.46 9.9 67.6 7.7
    Details Pascal's Pensées Pascal, Blaise 1623 1662 3000 4000 7000 10000 12000 17000 105254
    (263)
    14.7 1.47 10.6 67.6 7.5
    Details Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 Various 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 16000 84493
    (211)
    12.1 1.5 9.1 67.6 6.8
    Details The Marvelous Land of Oz Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) 1856 1919 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 16000 42055
    (105)
    15.4 1.46 10.1 67.7 7.6
    Details The Four Million Henry, O. 1862 1910 3000 5000 9000 12000 15000 21000 51419
    (128)
    14.7 1.47 9.6 67.7 7.5
    Details The Blue Fairy Book Lang, Andrew 1844 1912 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 16000 138225
    (345)
    24.9 1.35 12.4 67.7 10.0
    Details The Viking Blood A Story of Seafaring Wallace, Frederick William 3000 6000 9000 12000 16000 22000 138112
    (345)
    16.3 1.45 9.7 67.8 7.8
    Details Our Mutual Friend Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 4000 8000 12000 17000 17000 319979
    (799)
    15.6 1.46 10.0 67.8 7.7
    Details King Solomon's Mines Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider) 1856 1925 2000 4000 6000 9000 12000 20000 81742
    (204)
    19.7 1.41 11.1 67.8 8.7
    Details The Eyes Have It Dick, Philip K. 1928 1982 2000 4000 5000 8000 9000 12000 1120
    (2)
    9.8 1.53 8.5 67.8 6.2
    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 Lysistrata Aristophanes 446BC 385BC 3000 6000 9000 12000 15000 21000 14327
    (35)
    12.9 1.49 9.4 67.9 7.0
    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 The Tales of Mother Goose As First Collected by Charles Perrault in 1696 Perrault, Charles Welsh, Charles 1628 (1850) 1703 (1914) 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 17000 18345
    (45)
    23.2 1.36 11.8 67.9 9.6
    Details The Diva's Ruby Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion) 1854 1909 2000 3000 5000 8000 10000 15000 115276
    (288)
    18.3 1.42 10.9 67.9 8.3
    Details The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson Twain, Mark 1835 1911 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 18000 52382
    (130)
    19.1 1.41 11.0 67.9 8.5
    Details The Voyage Out Woolf, Virginia 1882 1941 2000 3000 5000 7000 9000 14000 134240
    (335)
    16.4 1.44 10.1 67.9 7.9
    Details Little Women Alcott, Louisa May 1832 1888 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 16000 185220
    (463)
    19.5 1.41 10.8 68.0 8.6
    Details The Young Visiters or, Mr. Salteena's Plan Ashford, Daisy 1881 1972 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 17000 14509
    (36)
    18.3 1.42 10.2 68.0 8.3
    Details Gretchen A Novel Holmes, Mary J. 1000 3000 5000 7000 10000 15000 173864
    (434)
    23.1 1.36 11.8 68.0 9.5
    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 The Doré Gallery of Bible Illustrations, Complete 3000 6000 8000 12000 15000 22000 35371
    (88)
    24.1 1.35 12.3 68.0 9.8
    Details The Importance of Being Earnest Wilde, Oscar 1854 1900 2000 3000 7000 9000 14000 21000 20449
    (51)
    7.8 1.55 8.4 68.1 5.7
    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 The American Frugal Housewife Child, Lydia Maria 1802 1880 3000 5000 9000 12000 15000 20000 44452
    (111)
    18.4 1.42 10.5 68.1 8.3
    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 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 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 Underdogs, a Story of the Mexican Revolution Azuela, Mariano Munguía, E. (Enrique) 1873 (1903) 1952 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 20000 37140
    (92)
    12.9 1.48 9.4 68.2 7.0
    Details The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated Dante Alighieri Cary, Henry Francis 1265 (1772) 1321 (1844) 4000 7000 11000 13000 17000 23000 108262
    (270)
    24.5 1.34 12.1 68.4 9.8
    Details Filipino Popular Tales 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 18000 204192
    (510)
    15.5 1.45 9.9 68.4 7.6
    Details Aesop's Fables; a new translation Aesop Vernon Jones, V. S. (Vernon Stanley) 620BC 563BC 2000 5000 7000 10000 12000 22000 41387
    (103)
    25.3 1.33 12.4 68.4 10.0
    Details Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare Shakespeare, William 1564 1616 2000 4000 8000 10000 13000 23000 47634
    (119)
    16.0 1.44 10.5 68.4 7.7
    Details The Beast in the Jungle James, Henry 1843 1916 2000 3000 5000 7000 9000 14000 18288
    (45)
    20.3 1.39 11.6 68.4 8.8
    Details Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 2 Malory, Thomas, Sir 1400 1470 3000 5000 9000 13000 17000 23000 187600
    (469)
    26.2 1.32 12.9 68.5 10.2
    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 Philippine Folk Tales 2000 3000 5000 7000 9000 15000 48249
    (120)
    21.8 1.37 11.5 68.7 9.1
    Details A Child's Garden of Verses Stevenson, Robert Louis 1850 1894 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 16000 8785
    (21)
    23.1 1.36 10.9 68.7 9.4
    Details Beeton's Book of Needlework Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary) 1836 1865 4000 6000 14000 15000 17000 20000 81453
    (203)
    13.6 1.47 8.8 68.7 7.0
    Details Carolina Lee Bell, Lilian 1867 1929 2000 4000 6000 9000 12000 18000 73197
    (182)
    14.4 1.46 9.6 68.7 7.3
    Details The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights Knowles, James, Sir 1831 1908 3000 5000 10000 12000 15000 21000 93384
    (233)
    26.0 1.32 12.6 68.7 10.1
    Details Fighting Byng A Novel of Mystery, Intrigue and Adventure Stone, A. 2000 4000 6000 9000 12000 20000 56530
    (141)
    15.7 1.45 9.7 68.7 7.6
    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 Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 Cole, E. W. (Edward William) 1832 1918 2000 5000 8000 11000 14000 21000 141555
    (353)
    20.6 1.38 10.6 68.8 8.8

    Notes:

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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.