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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 Mystery of the Pinckney Draught Nott, Charles C. 1827 1916 3000 4000 8000 9000 10000 17000 59403
    (148)
    24.7 1.63 17.1 43.9 13.3
    Details New Atlantis Bacon, Francis 1561 1626 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 19000 15693
    (39)
    33.2 1.42 17.1 52.8 14.2
    Details The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in Engels, Friedrich Kelley, Florence 1820 (1859) 1895 (1932) 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 16000 114426
    (286)
    27.4 1.62 17.1 42.3 14.2
    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 Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners Freud, Sigmund Eder, M. D. (Montague David) 1856 (1866) 1939 (1936) 3000 4000 6000 8000 11000 16000 53068
    (132)
    25.7 1.64 17.2 42.3 13.7
    Details The Coming Race Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron 1803 1873 3000 5000 8000 10000 12000 18000 52320
    (130)
    29.3 1.56 17.2 45.2 14.2
    Details British Castles Ashdown, Charles H. 3000 5000 9000 12000 16000 23000 39601
    (99)
    25.6 1.66 17.2 40.7 14.0
    Details The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) Burke, Edmund 1729 1797 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 17000 152778
    (381)
    27.5 1.58 17.3 44.9 13.8
    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 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 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 Irene Iddesleigh Ros, Amanda Mc 1860 1939 3000 5000 8000 9000 11000 15000 33703
    (84)
    30.3 1.56 17.4 44.2 14.6
    Details De vita Caesarum Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius 75 160 3000 5000 9000 12000 15000 22000 228866
    (572)
    26.5 1.63 17.5 42.4 13.9
    Details Fifty-two Stories of the British Navy, from Damme to Trafalgar. Miles, Alfred H. (Alfred Henry) 1848 1929 3000 4000 7000 10000 13000 20000 150454
    (376)
    32.0 1.5 17.5 47.8 14.5
    Details Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education Dewey, John 1859 1952 3000 3000 5000 7000 9000 13000 134869
    (337)
    23.7 1.73 17.5 36.1 14.1
    Details The Book of Mormon Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1805 1844 3000 6000 8000 10000 13000 17000 275021
    (687)
    35.8 1.39 17.5 53.1 14.7
    Details Common Sense Paine, Thomas 1737 1809 3000 4000 7000 10000 13000 16000 19419
    (48)
    29.7 1.55 17.5 45.4 14.3
    Details Don Juan Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron 1788 1824 3000 6000 10000 12000 15000 22000 124309
    (310)
    37.0 1.39 17.6 52.1 15.2
    Details Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 2 (1779-1792): the Rights of Man Paine, Thomas 1737 1809 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 18000 92171
    (230)
    28.4 1.6 17.7 43.0 14.3
    Details An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Editi Locke, John 1632 1704 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 16000 149042
    (372)
    31.5 1.51 17.7 46.9 14.5
    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 The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written b Díaz del Castillo, Bernal Lockhart, John Ingram 1492 1585 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 19000 183124
    (457)
    29.7 1.55 17.7 45.8 14.2
    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 Amerigo Vespucci Ober, Frederick A. (Frederick Albion) 1849 1913 3000 4000 7000 10000 13000 20000 55391
    (138)
    29.6 1.56 17.8 45.1 14.3
    Details Secret Chambers and Hiding Places Historic, Romantic, & Legendary Stories & Trad Fea, Allan 1860 1956 3000 5000 7000 9000 13000 19000 33872
    (84)
    31.2 1.58 17.8 41.2 15.3
    Details The Fall of the House of Usher Poe, Edgar Allan 1809 1849 4000 6000 10000 13000 15000 20000 6977
    (17)
    29.1 1.62 17.8 40.3 14.9
    Details The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau — Complete Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 1712 1778 3000 4000 7000 10000 12000 18000 274389
    (685)
    30.2 1.57 17.9 43.2 14.7
    Details Fifty Years in Chains Or, the Life of an American Slave Ball, Charles 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 105338
    (263)
    35.5 1.43 17.9 49.7 15.1
    Details Erewhon Butler, Samuel 1835 1902 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 16000 83680
    (209)
    33.5 1.49 17.9 46.5 15.1
    Details The Economic Consequences of the Peace Keynes, John Maynard 1883 1946 3000 3000 6000 9000 10000 16000 67762
    (169)
    26.4 1.67 17.9 38.9 14.4
    Details The Shunned House Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips) 1890 1937 3000 6000 8000 10000 13000 18000 10663
    (26)
    30.4 1.6 17.9 40.3 15.2
    Details The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Franklin, Benjamin 1706 1790 2000 4000 6000 9000 12000 18000 65762
    (164)
    32.0 1.54 18.0 44.5 15.0
    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 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 Common Sense Paine, Thomas 1737 1809 3000 4000 7000 10000 13000 16000 21504
    (53)
    31.1 1.55 18.1 44.2 14.8
    Details Essays in Experimental Logic Dewey, John 1859 1952 3000 3000 6000 7000 9000 15000 107047
    (267)
    25.9 1.71 18.1 36.3 14.6
    Details Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Twain, Mark 1835 1911 1000 3000 6000 9000 12000 20000 110968
    (277)
    42.0 1.3 18.2 54.1 16.2
    Details Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Pe Jacob, P. L. 1806 1884 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 21000 155617
    (389)
    29.5 1.61 18.2 40.7 14.9
    Details Leonardo da Vinci A Psychosexual Study of an Infantile Reminiscence Freud, Sigmund Brill, A. A. (Abraham Arden) 1856 (1874) 1939 (1948) 3000 4000 8000 11000 12000 18000 23520
    (58)
    26.4 1.69 18.2 37.1 14.6
    Details Private Sex Advice to Women For Young Wives and those who Expect to be Married Armitage, R. B. 3000 4000 8000 10000 12000 17000 68583
    (171)
    27.3 1.68 18.3 37.4 14.8
    Details The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Irving, Washington 1783 1859 4000 7000 10000 13000 16000 21000 12209
    (30)
    35.0 1.51 18.3 43.9 15.8
    Details The Kingdom of God Is Within You Tolstoy, Leo, graf Garnett, Constance 1828 (1861) 1910 (1946) 3000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 123231
    (308)
    31.0 1.56 18.3 43.6 14.9
    Details British Political Leaders Mc 1830 1912 3000 3000 6000 8000 10000 15000 63507
    (158)
    29.9 1.61 18.3 40.3 15.1
    Details The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science 3000 4000 8000 11000 15000 21000 91873
    (229)
    27.8 1.66 18.4 38.2 14.9
    Details Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 4 (1794-1796): the Age of Reason Paine, Thomas 1737 1809 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 19000 71992
    (179)
    33.4 1.51 18.4 45.1 15.3
    Details Second Treatise of Government Locke, John 1632 1704 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 19000 56126
    (140)
    33.0 1.51 18.6 45.7 15.1
    Details Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot Craig, Austin 1872 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 19000 62400
    (156)
    29.6 1.64 18.6 38.3 15.3
    Details The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) Burke, Edmund 1729 1797 3000 5000 8000 12000 17000 21000 161987
    (404)
    29.8 1.6 18.6 41.0 15.0
    Details Plutarch's Lives, Volume I Plutarch Stewart, Aubrey 46 (1844) 120 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 19000 184023
    (460)
    32.8 1.53 18.6 44.0 15.3
    Details Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 Lacroix, John Victor 1882 4000 8000 15000 20000 22000 25000 78588
    (196)
    23.6 1.79 18.6 31.1 14.8

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