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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 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 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 The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders Defoe, Daniel 1661 1731 2000 3000 5000 8000 11000 16000 137615
    (344)
    41.8 1.39 19.7 47.2 17.1
    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 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 The Game of Logic Carroll, Lewis 1832 1898 2000 4000 7000 10000 14000 17000 13040
    (32)
    8.5 1.46 7.4 74.7 4.9
    Details The Garden Party and Other Stories Mansfield, Katherine 1888 1923 2000 4000 6000 8000 11000 16000 56598
    (141)
    10.5 1.39 6.6 78.9 4.9
    Details The Gardener Tagore, Rabindranath 1861 1941 2000 4000 7000 9000 10000 16000 13795
    (34)
    14.2 1.28 7.1 83.9 5.1
    Details The Gentleman and Lady's Book of Politeness and Propriety of Deportment, Dedicat Celnart, Elisabeth 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 17000 45211
    (113)
    26.3 1.56 16.2 48.0 13.1
    Details The Gift of the Magi Henry, O. 1862 1910 2000 5000 7000 11000 12000 14000 2038
    (5)
    12.6 1.42 8.1 74.2 6.0
    Details The Gods of Mars Burroughs, Edgar Rice 1875 1950 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 22000 82534
    (206)
    20.2 1.44 11.5 64.2 9.3
    Details The Gods of Mars Burroughs, Edgar Rice 1875 1950 3000 4000 7000 10000 12000 22000 82500
    (206)
    20.2 1.44 11.5 64.2 9.3
    Details The Golden Asse Apuleius, Lucius 125 180 3000 6000 10000 15000 17000 23000 80574
    (201)
    51.6 1.43 24.2 33.7 21.4
    Details The Golden Goose Book Brooke, L. Leslie (Leonard Leslie) 1862 1940 1000 3000 6000 9000 14000 14000 5262
    (13)
    21.4 1.29 10.3 76.2 7.9
    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 The Good Soldier Ford, Ford Madox 1873 1939 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 18000 74336
    (185)
    19.0 1.45 11.3 65.2 8.9
    Details The Grammar of English Grammars Brown, Goold 1791 1857 3000 6000 9000 12000 15000 22000 875923
    (2189)
    10.3 1.55 9.6 65.3 6.7
    Details The Grand Inquisitor Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna) 1821 (1831) 1881 (1891) 3000 4000 7000 10000 11000 15000 9588
    (23)
    25.6 1.46 14.5 57.7 11.6
    Details The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan White, Ellen Gould Harmon 1827 1915 3000 5000 8000 10000 12000 17000 241259
    (603)
    17.1 1.53 12.3 60.2 9.1
    Details The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1 2000 4000 8000 10000 13000 19000 84282
    (210)
    22.3 1.46 12.9 60.3 10.4
    Details The Great God Pan Machen, Arthur 1863 1947 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 17000 21527
    (53)
    19.7 1.45 11.3 64.5 9.2
    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 The Greatest Highway in the World Historical, Industrial and Descriptive Informa New York Central Railroad Company 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 48248
    (120)
    14.7 1.63 12.4 53.8 9.4
    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 Gun Dick, Philip K. 1928 1982 2000 3000 6000 7000 10000 11000 4834
    (12)
    7.6 1.4 5.9 80.6 3.9
    Details The Handbook of Soap Manufacture Simmons, W. H. (William Herbert)Appleton, H. A. 4000 9000 15000 17000 19000 24000 53752
    (134)
    9.8 1.76 12.2 48.1 9.0
    Details The Hindu-Arabic Numerals Karpinski, Louis Charles 1878 1956 3000 6000 11000 15000 18000 23000 45182
    (112)
    11.6 1.69 11.9 51.6 8.9
    Details The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Table of Contents with l Gibbon, Edward 1737 1794 3000 5000 7000 10000 14000 18000 10194
    (25)
    7.3 1.75 11.5 51.8 7.8
    Details The History of Antiquity, Vol. III (of VI) Duncker, Max Abbott, Evelyn 3000 4000 7000 10000 13000 22000 140000
    (350)
    16.9 1.57 12.8 56.8 9.5
    Details The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de Ormsby, John 1547 (1829) 1616 (1895) 3000 4000 8000 11000 13000 19000 215612
    (539)
    48.7 1.41 23.1 37.8 20.1
    Details The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 Livy Spillan, D. (Daniel) (1854) 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 20000 231205
    (578)
    32.4 1.58 19.4 40.1 15.7
    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 The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides Crawley, Richard 455BC (1840) 395BC (1893) 2000 4000 6000 8000 11000 17000 204634
    (511)
    39.8 1.57 22.0 33.4 18.5
    Details The Hound of the Baskervilles Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 58745
    (146)
    15.0 1.42 9.3 71.8 7.0
    Details The Hound of the Baskervilles Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 58816
    (147)
    15.1 1.42 9.3 71.7 7.0
    Details The House of Mirth Wharton, Edith 1862 1937 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 16000 127415
    (318)
    21.9 1.49 13.1 58.4 10.5
    Details The House on the Borderland Hodgson, William Hope 1877 1918 2000 4000 6000 9000 10000 15000 50522
    (126)
    17.3 1.47 10.4 65.1 8.5
    Details The Hunting of the Snark Carroll, Lewis 1832 1898 3000 5000 9000 14000 15000 18000 4969
    (12)
    22.4 1.39 12.0 66.2 9.6
    Details The Idiot Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Martin, Eva M. 1821 1881 2000 3000 5000 7000 9000 14000 239039
    (597)
    14.9 1.47 10.4 67.1 7.6
    Details The Iliad Homer Butler, Samuel 750BC (1835) 650BC (1902) 2000 5000 8000 11000 14000 22000 152112
    (380)
    31.0 1.35 15.0 61.5 12.4
    Details The Iliad Homer Pope, Alexander 750BC (1688) 650BC (1744) 4000 6000 10000 12000 16000 23000 188352
    (470)
    23.1 1.42 12.7 63.4 10.2
    Details The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper Homer Cowper, William 750BC (1731) 650BC (1800) 4000 7000 10000 13000 18000 24000 169570
    (423)
    21.2 1.46 12.7 61.8 9.9
    Details The Illustrated War News, Number 15, Nov. 18, 1914 Various 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 21000 9530
    (23)
    19.3 1.62 13.7 50.2 11.1
    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 The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer) 1840 1914 3000 4000 6000 8000 10000 16000 206172
    (515)
    29.9 1.59 18.0 41.9 14.8
    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
    Details The Innocents Abroad Twain, Mark 1835 1911 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 21000 190987
    (477)
    21.8 1.49 13.0 58.5 10.5
    Details The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The Equiano, Olaudah 1745 1797 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 17000 81664
    (204)
    29.1 1.46 15.7 53.5 13.0
    Details The Invention of Lithography Senefelder, Alois Muller, J. W. 3000 4000 7000 12000 13000 17000 87110
    (217)
    24.2 1.54 14.5 52.3 12.0
    Details The Invention of the Sewing Machine Cooper, Grace Rogers 3000 4000 6000 10000 14000 22000 44774
    (111)
    10.5 1.71 10.8 51.1 8.8

    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.