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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 Babbitt Lewis, Sinclair 1885 1951 3000 5000 10000 16000 21000 21000 120915
    (302)
    15.4 1.49 10.0 65.0 8.0
    Details Barkham Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 188 Burroughs, Barkham 1952 4000 6000 10000 13000 16000 21000 147356
    (368)
    19.3 1.51 12.1 59.8 9.7
    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 Barty Crusoe and His Man Saturday Burnett, Frances Hodgson 1849 1924 2000 3000 5000 6000 9000 17000 20422
    (51)
    14.2 1.34 7.9 78.6 5.8
    Details Beast and Man in India A Popular Sketch of Indian Animals in their Relations wit Kipling, John Lockwood 3000 6000 9000 12000 15000 21000 93292
    (233)
    25.4 1.54 15.0 51.1 12.4
    Details Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare Shakespeare, William 1564 1616 2000 4000 8000 10000 13000 23000 47634
    (119)
    16.0 1.44 10.5 68.4 7.7
    Details Beeton's Book of Needlework Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary) 1836 1865 4000 6000 14000 15000 17000 20000 81453
    (203)
    13.6 1.47 8.8 68.7 7.0
    Details Behind the Scenes in Warring Germany Fox, Edward Lyell 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 17000 85448
    (213)
    18.8 1.48 11.4 62.7 9.2
    Details Beowulf Gummere, Francis Barton (1855) (1919) 4000 7000 11000 14000 19000 24000 25594
    (63)
    23.1 1.37 11.2 67.2 9.6
    Details Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem Hall, J. Lesslie (John Lesslie) (1856) (1928) 4000 6000 10000 13000 17000 25000 37282
    (93)
    19.9 1.55 11.9 55.4 10.5
    Details Best Russian Short Stories 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 94443
    (236)
    15.3 1.47 10.4 66.6 7.8
    Details Beyond Good and Evil Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm Zimmern, Helen 1844 (1846) 1900 (1934) 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 18000 61977
    (154)
    32.8 1.65 19.9 33.7 16.7
    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 Beyond the Door Dick, Philip K. 1928 1982 2000 3000 6000 8000 8000 9000 2451
    (6)
    8.4 1.35 5.4 84.3 3.6
    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 Black Beauty Sewell, Anna 1820 1878 1000 2000 5000 7000 9000 15000 59721
    (149)
    23.5 1.31 10.9 72.5 9.0
    Details Bleak House Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 347904
    (869)
    16.7 1.45 10.3 67.2 8.0
    Details Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles G Boswell, James 1740 1795 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 214740
    (536)
    20.2 1.52 12.9 57.9 10.2
    Details Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 Boy Scouts of America 3000 4000 7000 10000 13000 21000 122326
    (305)
    15.9 1.49 10.6 64.8 8.2
    Details Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Bradford, William 1590 1657 2000 4000 8000 11000 16000 23000 169207
    (423)
    21.2 1.45 12.2 62.4 9.8
    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 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 Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable Bulfinch, Thomas 1796 1867 3000 6000 9000 13000 17000 24000 145570
    (363)
    21.7 1.48 13.2 59.5 10.4
    Details Bushido, the Soul of Japan Nitobe, Inazo 1862 1933 3000 6000 9000 11000 14000 19000 33042
    (82)
    25.1 1.6 16.0 46.1 13.1
    Details Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture George, Walter S.Henderson, Arthur E. (Arthur Edward) 1870 4000 5000 10000 13000 16000 20000 99523
    (248)
    12.9 1.65 12.0 54.1 8.9
    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 Candide Voltaire 1694 1778 3000 5000 8000 11000 15000 21000 35400
    (88)
    18.0 1.5 11.7 61.4 9.2
    Details Captain Blood Sabatini, Rafael 1875 1950 3000 5000 9000 12000 14000 22000 112331
    (280)
    14.5 1.48 10.2 66.7 7.6
    Details Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World Cook, James 1728 1779 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 22000 220361
    (550)
    21.2 1.45 12.3 62.8 9.8
    Details Carmen Mérimée, Prosper Loyd, Lady Mary Sophia (Hely-Hutchinson) 1803 (1853) 1870 (1936) 2000 4000 7000 10000 14000 20000 23528
    (58)
    15.7 1.43 9.4 69.8 7.4
    Details Carmilla Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan 1814 1873 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 19000 27904
    (69)
    19.4 1.5 12.1 60.6 9.6
    Details Carolina Lee Bell, Lilian 1867 1929 2000 4000 6000 9000 12000 18000 73197
    (182)
    14.4 1.46 9.6 68.7 7.3
    Details Carpentry for Boys In a Simple Language, Including Chapters on Drawing, Laying O Zerbe, James Slough 1850 3000 5000 9000 12000 16000 21000 37590
    (93)
    11.4 1.51 9.2 67.5 6.7
    Details Cautionary Tales for Children Belloc, Hilaire 1870 1953 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 16000 2620
    (6)
    16.4 1.5 11.4 63.2 8.5
    Details Chef d'oeuvre inconnu. English Balzac, Honoré de 1799 1850 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 10624
    (26)
    17.3 1.44 10.4 67.3 8.2
    Details Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 17000 169364
    (423)
    18.2 1.33 9.2 76.0 7.2
    Details Children's Hour with Red Riding Hood and Other Stories 2000 4000 6000 12000 15000 15000 2706
    (6)
    18.5 1.34 9.2 74.6 7.5
    Details Christianity Unveiled Being An Examination of The Principles And Effects of The Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d' Johnson, W. M. (William Martin) 1723 (1771) 1789 (1797) 4000 6000 9000 11000 13000 18000 39094
    (97)
    21.4 1.64 15.8 46.2 12.1
    Details Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Complete Young, Filson 1876 1938 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 21000 161166
    (402)
    35.3 1.5 19.2 44.2 15.9
    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 Clouds Aristophanes Hickie, William James 446BC 385BC 3000 7000 18000 18000 20000 22000 15272
    (38)
    8.9 1.42 7.0 78.1 4.6
    Details Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 Cole, E. W. (Edward William) 1832 1918 2000 5000 8000 11000 14000 21000 141555
    (353)
    20.6 1.38 10.6 68.8 8.8
    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 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 Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant Maupassant, Guy de 1850 1893 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 489213
    (1223)
    16.9 1.45 10.5 67.2 8.1
    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 Confessions of an English Opium-Eater De Quincey, Thomas 1785 1859 3000 4000 8000 10000 13000 18000 38035
    (95)
    35.9 1.57 19.8 37.2 17.0
    Details Crome Yellow Huxley, Aldous 1894 1963 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 20000 56364
    (140)
    13.6 1.53 10.2 63.1 7.8
    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 Daddy-Long-Legs Webster, Jean 1876 1916 2000 4000 6000 8000 11000 16000 36296
    (90)
    14.5 1.47 9.3 67.5 7.5

    Notes:

    Numbers in the parentheses of the born/died information denotes the translators' born/died year.
    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.