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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 Tale of Peter Rabbit Potter, Beatrix 1866 1943 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 13000 991
    (2)
    17.1 1.49 10.6 63.7 8.6
    Details The Tale of Peter Rabbit Potter, Beatrix 1866 1943 2000 3000 6000 9000 11000 14000 994
    (2)
    16.3 1.54 11.0 60.2 8.9
    Details The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin Potter, Beatrix 1866 1943 2000 6000 9000 13000 16000 20000 1235
    (3)
    18.4 1.46 10.1 65.0 8.8
    Details The Tale of Tom Kitten Potter, Beatrix 1866 1943 3000 7000 10000 13000 13000 13000 754
    (1)
    15.1 1.51 10.2 64.2 8.1
    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 Tao Teh King, or the Tao and its Characteristics Laozi Legge, James (1815) (1897) 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 16000 10365
    (25)
    13.8 1.41 9.4 73.7 6.4
    Details The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio 3000 4000 8000 12000 17000 22000 97942
    (244)
    20.5 1.5 13.2 58.7 10.2
    Details The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Brontë, Anne 1820 1849 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 17000 166923
    (417)
    23.0 1.47 13.2 59.0 10.8
    Details The Thirty-Nine Steps Buchan, John 1875 1940 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 40737
    (101)
    15.5 1.41 8.9 71.6 7.1
    Details The Three Musketeers Dumas, Alexandre 1802 1870 2000 5000 9000 12000 17000 21000 227889
    (569)
    14.7 1.48 10.7 66.6 7.6
    Details The Time Machine Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) 1866 1946 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 18000 32111
    (80)
    16.8 1.5 10.8 62.6 8.7
    Details The Tinguian Social, Religious, and Economic Life of a Philippine Tribe Cole, Fay-Cooper 1881 1961 3000 4000 6000 9000 11000 18000 96647
    (241)
    18.5 1.52 12.1 59.4 9.6
    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 Tragical History of Doctor Faustus From the Quarto of 1604 Marlowe, Christopher 1564 1593 4000 6000 11000 15000 20000 23000 19258
    (48)
    12.3 1.46 8.2 70.8 6.4
    Details The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus From the Quarto of 1616 Marlowe, Christopher 1564 1593 4000 6000 12000 16000 22000 24000 20740
    (51)
    10.7 1.44 7.4 74.4 5.5
    Details The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 Yule, Henry, Sir (1820) (1889) 3000 5000 9000 13000 15000 22000 313144
    (782)
    16.0 1.55 11.7 59.5 8.9
    Details The Trial Kafka, Franz Wyllie, David 1883 1924 1000 2000 4000 5000 7000 12000 82679
    (206)
    17.6 1.4 10.4 70.4 7.8
    Details The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 1 Russell, R. V. (Robert Vane) 1873 1915 3000 5000 9000 12000 17000 22000 175708
    (439)
    16.8 1.62 12.6 53.1 10.0
    Details The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 2 Russell, R. V. (Robert Vane) 1873 1915 3000 5000 8000 12000 17000 21000 201803
    (504)
    19.5 1.56 13.2 54.7 10.5
    Details The Turn of the Screw James, Henry 1843 1916 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 14000 41719
    (104)
    16.9 1.43 10.2 69.1 7.8
    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 Valley of Fear Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 3000 5000 8000 10000 15000 57012
    (142)
    13.3 1.41 8.6 74.3 6.2
    Details The Vampyre; a Tale Polidori, John William 1795 1821 3000 4000 7000 10000 12000 21000 12586
    (31)
    34.3 1.52 18.9 43.3 15.7
    Details The Variable Man Dick, Philip K. 1928 1982 2000 4000 6000 8000 9000 18000 24824
    (62)
    7.8 1.51 7.4 71.3 5.3
    Details The Velveteen Rabbit Bianco, Margery Williams 1880 1944 1000 4000 7000 8000 11000 13000 3965
    (9)
    16.2 1.33 8.3 77.5 6.5
    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 The Virginia Company Of London, 1606-1624 Craven, Wesley Frank 1905 1981 3000 3000 5000 7000 9000 14000 20141
    (50)
    29.4 1.67 19.4 36.0 15.5
    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 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 The War in the Air Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) 1866 1946 3000 5000 7000 10000 12000 19000 96478
    (241)
    16.1 1.51 10.9 62.4 8.5
    Details The War of the Worlds Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) 1866 1946 3000 5000 7000 9000 11000 16000 59603
    (149)
    18.2 1.49 11.1 62.4 9.1
    Details The Wars of the Jews; or the history of the destruction of Jerusalem Josephus, Flavius Whiston, William 38 (1667) 100 (1752) 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 18000 233520
    (583)
    37.5 1.47 19.7 44.6 16.4
    Details The Waste Land Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns) 1888 1965 4000 6000 11000 14000 17000 22000 4490
    (11)
    12.0 1.51 8.9 66.6 7.0
    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 The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) Cooking, Toilet and Household Recipes, Menus, Din Ziemann, Hugo 1828 1926 4000 6000 10000 13000 16000 21000 219613
    (549)
    15.7 1.43 9.1 69.6 7.5
    Details The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy James, William 1842 1910 3000 4000 7000 10000 12000 17000 99183
    (247)
    24.2 1.6 15.8 47.2 12.7
    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 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 Woman in White Collins, Wilkie 1824 1889 2000 3000 5000 7000 9000 16000 241638
    (604)
    17.8 1.47 11.3 64.1 8.7
    Details The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) 1856 1919 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 17000 39505
    (98)
    17.4 1.33 9.3 76.3 6.9
    Details The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I Behn, Aphra 1640 1689 3000 5000 9000 12000 16000 22000 144849
    (362)
    9.2 1.4 6.7 78.6 4.6
    Details The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher Containing his Complete Masterpiec Aristotle 384BC 322BC 3000 6000 10000 15000 18000 23000 107312
    (268)
    26.1 1.45 14.5 57.5 11.7
    Details The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 Poe, Edgar Allan 1809 1849 3000 5000 9000 11000 14000 21000 93549
    (233)
    22.4 1.57 14.4 51.3 11.7
    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 Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4 Poe, Edgar Allan 1809 1849 3000 5000 9000 12000 15000 21000 77252
    (193)
    18.8 1.58 13.2 53.7 10.5
    Details The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5 Poe, Edgar Allan 1809 1849 3000 6000 9000 12000 15000 22000 71189
    (177)
    21.1 1.5 13.0 58.2 10.4
    Details The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron 1788 1824 4000 6000 10000 12000 15000 23000 121886
    (304)
    20.6 1.42 11.7 66.2 9.1
    Details The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Trusler, John 1735 1820 4000 6000 10000 13000 15000 21000 41272
    (103)
    26.5 1.58 16.4 46.4 13.4
    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 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

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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.