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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 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 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 Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 With Translations and Index for the Series Addison, Joseph 1672 1719 3000 4000 8000 11000 13000 20000 929911
    (2324)
    26.0 1.51 15.2 52.3 12.4
    Details Bartleby, the Scrivener A Story of Wall-Street Melville, Herman 1819 1891 3000 5000 9000 12000 17000 19000 14288
    (35)
    17.6 1.57 12.3 56.2 9.8
    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 Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson Emerson, Ralph Waldo 1803 1882 3000 5000 8000 10000 14000 22000 91306
    (228)
    21.0 1.53 13.6 55.9 10.7
    Details On the Sublime Longinus, 1st cent. Havell, H. L. (Herbert Lord) (1913) 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 20000 28948
    (72)
    17.0 1.6 13.0 54.3 9.9
    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 River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan Churchill, Winston 1874 1965 3000 5000 9000 13000 13000 23000 124226
    (310)
    19.9 1.61 14.3 50.3 11.2
    Details Aesop's Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend Aesop Townsend, George Fyler 620BC (1814) 563BC (1900) 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 22000 40748
    (101)
    22.2 1.43 12.6 63.5 9.9
    Details The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do Popular Mechanics Company 3000 4000 7000 10000 13000 19000 231737
    (579)
    15.1 1.44 9.7 69.8 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 Theory of the Leisure Class Veblen, Thorstein 1857 1929 3000 6000 9000 12000 13000 19000 105017
    (262)
    33.7 1.76 21.7 24.1 18.3
    Details Cyrano De Bergerac Rostand, Edmond Thomas, Gladys 1868 1918 3000 6000 10000 14000 17000 23000 34576
    (86)
    9.7 1.45 7.4 74.4 5.3
    Details The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3 Poe, Edgar Allan 1809 1849 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 21000 98568
    (246)
    25.9 1.55 15.6 49.8 12.7
    Details The Wendigo Blackwood, Algernon 1869 1951 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 15000 18159
    (45)
    21.0 1.49 12.9 59.1 10.2
    Details Voltaire Morley, John 1838 1923 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 19000 93857
    (234)
    25.2 1.62 16.7 44.2 13.4
    Details Biblical Geography and History Kent, Charles Foster 1867 1925 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 22000 99638
    (249)
    22.8 1.62 15.4 46.3 12.5
    Details Ruins of Ancient Cities (Vol. I of II) Bucke, Charles 3000 5000 9000 12000 14000 22000 144564
    (361)
    24.0 1.58 15.7 48.5 12.5
    Details The Connexion Between Taste and Morals Two lectures Hopkins, Mark 1802 1887 3000 4000 6000 8000 11000 17000 15404
    (38)
    32.4 1.55 18.6 43.2 15.3
    Details Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems (1798) Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 1772 1834 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 20000 21413
    (53)
    20.3 1.31 9.8 75.3 7.8
    Details The Art of Public Speaking Esenwein, J. Berg (Joseph Berg) 1867 1946 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 16000 154880
    (387)
    17.2 1.54 12.1 59.1 9.3
    Details The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened Digby, Kenelm 1603 1665 3000 6000 10000 14000 18000 23000 92490
    (231)
    27.3 1.37 13.1 63.1 11.2
    Details The Chronicles of Clovis Saki 1870 1916 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 20000 52069
    (130)
    20.8 1.57 13.7 52.5 11.1
    Details Email 101 Goodwin, John 3000 3000 5000 7000 11000 19000 19561
    (48)
    15.1 1.63 12.3 53.6 9.5
    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 The Voyage of the Beagle Darwin, Charles 1809 1882 3000 5000 8000 12000 15000 21000 210326
    (525)
    21.0 1.57 13.8 52.6 11.1
    Details In the Year 2889 Verne, Jules 1828 1905 3000 4000 6000 8000 12000 18000 5492
    (13)
    13.1 1.57 11.0 60.7 8.0
    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 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 Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories 3000 4000 8000 10000 13000 19000 100810
    (252)
    18.0 1.48 11.5 63.6 8.9
    Details Human, All Too Human A Book for Free Spirits Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm Harvey, Alexander Miller 1844 (1867) 1900 (1928) 3000 5000 7000 10000 12000 18000 36537
    (91)
    32.2 1.65 19.7 34.9 16.4
    Details 1601 Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors Twain, Mark 1835 1911 3000 6000 10000 13000 16000 22000 11354
    (28)
    22.8 1.57 14.4 51.0 11.8
    Details Opticks or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours Newton, Isaac, Sir 1642 1727 3000 5000 9000 10000 12000 18000 96556
    (241)
    32.8 1.5 18.0 46.6 14.9
    Details Shakspere & Typography Blades, William 1824 1890 3000 4000 8000 11000 14000 19000 6763
    (16)
    19.3 1.59 13.4 53.1 10.6
    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 Ghostly Phenomena O'Donnell, Elliott 1872 1965 3000 4000 7000 10000 14000 15000 34834
    (87)
    25.6 1.56 15.5 48.9 12.8
    Details House of the Seven Gables Hawthorne, Nathaniel 1804 1864 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 19000 105173
    (262)
    22.8 1.54 14.1 53.6 11.4
    Details Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme Molière Jones, Philip Dwight 1622 1673 3000 5000 9000 10000 14000 16000 18257
    (45)
    11.3 1.49 8.4 69.7 6.3
    Details The Pencil of Nature Talbot, William Henry Fox 1800 1877 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 14000 9368
    (23)
    19.4 1.6 13.8 52.0 10.8
    Details Human Animals Hamel, Frank 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 20000 97180
    (242)
    23.3 1.51 14.0 55.5 11.3
    Details The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Mackey, Albert Gallatin 1807 1881 3000 4000 7000 9000 10000 15000 70062
    (175)
    26.1 1.65 17.7 40.8 14.1
    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 Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine Elliott, James, Sir 1880 1959 3000 5000 9000 12000 16000 23000 36438
    (91)
    20.3 1.66 15.5 45.7 11.9
    Details Alexander the Great Makers of History Abbott, Jacob 1803 1879 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 52859
    (132)
    23.5 1.6 15.8 48.0 12.4
    Details Origin and Early History of the Fashion Plate Nevinson, John L. 3000 5000 11000 14000 18000 25000 9332
    (23)
    20.1 1.67 14.7 45.4 11.9
    Details The Analysis of Mind Russell, Bertrand 1872 1970 3000 3000 5000 6000 8000 15000 88527
    (221)
    24.8 1.63 16.8 43.3 13.4
    Details Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making Gibson, W. Hamilton (William Hamilton) 1850 1896 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 18000 102413
    (256)
    19.1 1.47 12.0 62.6 9.3
    Details John Deere's Steel Plow Kendall, Edward C. 3000 5000 7000 8000 10000 15000 5509
    (13)
    17.7 1.53 12.1 59.4 9.4
    Details Democracy in America — Volume 2 Tocqueville, Alexis de Reeve, Henry 1805 (1813) 1859 (1895) 3000 4000 7000 8000 11000 16000 140667
    (351)
    33.1 1.64 20.1 34.3 16.7

    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.