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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 On Liberty Mill, John Stuart 1806 1873 3000 4000 6000 8000 10000 16000 51737
    (129)
    35.8 1.64 21.3 31.8 17.7
    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 A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis Freud, Sigmund Hall, G. Stanley 1856 (1846) 1939 (1924) 3000 4000 7000 9000 10000 15000 155848
    (389)
    24.6 1.65 16.9 42.3 13.5
    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 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 Edison's Conquest of Mars Serviss, Garrett Putman 1851 1929 3000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 64861
    (162)
    21.5 1.54 14.1 54.7 11.0
    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 Phaedo Plato Jowett, Benjamin 427BC (1817) 347BC (1893) 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 16000 42694
    (106)
    26.6 1.46 15.2 56.0 12.1
    Details The Mysterious Stranger Twain, Mark 1835 1911 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 41011
    (102)
    19.2 1.39 10.6 69.8 8.3
    Details The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 7617
    (19)
    12.1 1.45 8.5 71.6 6.3
    Details Meno Plato Jowett, Benjamin 427BC (1817) 347BC (1893) 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 16000 22147
    (55)
    19.6 1.5 12.8 59.8 9.8
    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 Concerning the Spiritual in Art Kandinsky, Wassily Sadleir, Michael 1866 (1888) 1944 (1957) 3000 4000 5000 8000 10000 17000 26025
    (65)
    20.0 1.64 14.5 47.8 11.6
    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 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 Anne of Avonlea Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud) 1874 1942 2000 4000 7000 8000 10000 15000 88170
    (220)
    15.5 1.42 9.5 70.8 7.2
    Details Little Men Alcott, Louisa May 1832 1888 2000 4000 7000 8000 10000 17000 104244
    (260)
    21.5 1.37 11.1 69.0 9.0
    Details Anne's House of Dreams Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud) 1874 1942 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 16000 78051
    (195)
    13.7 1.4 8.2 74.6 6.3
    Details Orthodoxy Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) 1874 1936 3000 4000 7000 8000 10000 15000 63665
    (159)
    20.1 1.53 13.0 57.2 10.3
    Details The Moonstone Collins, Wilkie 1824 1889 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 19000 191496
    (478)
    15.9 1.47 10.4 66.8 7.9
    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 Return of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 15000 111491
    (278)
    14.1 1.44 9.1 71.0 6.9
    Details The Adventure of the Devil's Foot Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 9893
    (24)
    16.6 1.48 10.8 64.8 8.3
    Details Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook Montessori, Maria 1870 1952 2000 3000 5000 8000 10000 17000 24376
    (60)
    22.4 1.54 14.6 53.4 11.4
    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 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 Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories Tolstoy, Leo, graf Tucker, Benjamin R. 1828 1910 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 16000 63962
    (159)
    17.1 1.47 11.0 65.1 8.4
    Details Varney the Vampire Or the Feast of Blood Prest, Thomas Preskett 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 17000 327232
    (818)
    18.9 1.43 11.3 66.6 8.7
    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 Children of Odin The Book of Northern Myths Colum, Padraic 1881 1972 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 65423
    (163)
    15.9 1.3 7.8 80.6 6.0
    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 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 Beyond Lies the Wub Dick, Philip K. 1928 1982 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 13000 2682
    (6)
    6.6 1.4 5.5 81.6 3.5
    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 Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm Grimm, Wilhelm Crane, Lucy 1786 (1842) 1859 (1882) 1000 3000 6000 8000 10000 16000 88523
    (221)
    22.3 1.28 10.5 75.7 8.2
    Details Old Plantation Days Being Recollections of Southern Life Before the Civil War Saussure, Mrs. N. B. de 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 15000 16693
    (41)
    22.3 1.47 13.0 59.5 10.5
    Details The Old Road Belloc, Hilaire 1870 1953 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 17000 54235
    (135)
    27.0 1.48 15.1 54.2 12.4
    Details Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) 1813 1897 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 82835
    (207)
    16.2 1.43 10.0 69.8 7.5
    Details Deathworld Harrison, Harry 1925 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 17000 56945
    (142)
    11.4 1.42 7.5 75.0 5.6
    Details The Pursuit of God Tozer, A. W. (Aiden Wilson) 1897 1963 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 17000 29000
    (72)
    19.4 1.44 11.6 65.4 9.0
    Details Précis de l'art de la guerre. English Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de Mendell, George H. (George Henry) 1779 (1831) 1869 (1902) 3000 4000 6000 8000 10000 17000 139359
    (348)
    21.4 1.63 15.5 46.9 12.0
    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 First Lessons in Geography Or, Introduction to Youth's Manual of Geography Monteith, James 2000 3000 6000 7000 10000 17000 5269
    (13)
    3.1 1.69 7.6 60.8 5.5
    Details Civil Disobedience Thoreau, Henry David 1817 1862 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 16000 9251
    (23)
    26.4 1.5 15.2 53.5 12.3
    Details The Story of Doctor Dolittle Lofting, Hugh 1886 1947 1000 2000 5000 7000 10000 13000 25697
    (64)
    14.6 1.33 7.6 79.6 5.8
    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 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 New Woman An Original Comedy, In Four Acts Grundy, Sydney 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 15000 17860
    (44)
    4.8 1.52 6.8 73.6 4.2
    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 The Elements of Drawing In Three Letters to Beginners Ruskin, John 1819 1900 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 16000 72573
    (181)
    29.6 1.47 16.0 52.7 13.3

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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.