Gutenberg Readability Search - Readability Catalog of Project Gutenberg eBooks

This table shows the readability data of selected Project Gutenberg eBooks.

  • To search books by Charles Dickens, search with dickens.
  • Input adventure to show Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, etc.
  • Vocabulary size input 13000 gives eBooks suitable for the vocabulary size.
  • Search with a blank input shows the whole catalog.
  • To sort, click the title of the row.


  • Tweet website's pick for you with #readabilitysquare!

    973 results.

    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 Tess of the d'Urbervilles, a Pure Woman Hardy, Thomas 1840 1928 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 18000 147161
    (367)
    18.3 1.45 11.1 65.7 8.6
    Details A Tale of Two Cities Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 22000 134550
    (336)
    17.3 1.44 10.5 67.2 8.2
    Details A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Twain, Mark 1835 1911 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 20000 116398
    (290)
    20.0 1.42 11.2 66.5 9.0
    Details A Princess of Mars Burroughs, Edgar Rice 1875 1950 3000 4000 7000 10000 12000 19000 67354
    (168)
    28.6 1.5 15.5 51.3 13.2
    Details A Christmas Carol Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 15000 28431
    (71)
    14.6 1.39 8.6 74.4 6.5
    Details Anne of Green Gables Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud) 1874 1942 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 17000 101388
    (253)
    14.7 1.43 9.3 71.1 7.0
    Details The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Stevenson, Robert Louis 1850 1894 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 17000 25369
    (63)
    21.3 1.44 12.1 63.3 9.7
    Details Around the World in 80 Days Verne, Jules 1828 1905 3000 4000 8000 10000 13000 20000 62632
    (156)
    17.0 1.53 11.9 60.3 9.1
    Details Memoirs Of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, Cleland, John 1709 1789 3000 4000 8000 11000 13000 19000 84355
    (210)
    57.8 1.49 27.7 22.4 24.5
    Details Dubliners Joyce, James 1882 1941 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 17000 66695
    (166)
    14.3 1.43 9.0 71.7 6.8
    Details Great Expectations Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 4000 6000 9000 12000 17000 183813
    (459)
    18.8 1.42 10.8 67.3 8.5
    Details Middlemarch Eliot, George 1819 1880 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 17000 311801
    (779)
    20.7 1.49 12.8 59.3 10.1
    Details Gulliver's Travels Swift, Jonathan 1667 1745 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 19000 103706
    (259)
    36.5 1.51 19.2 42.3 16.4
    Details The Brothers Karamazov Dostoyevsky, Fyodor 1821 1881 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 348671
    (871)
    14.5 1.46 9.9 68.9 7.3
    Details The Jungle Book Kipling, Rudyard 1865 1936 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 25000 50599
    (126)
    15.9 1.33 8.1 78.1 6.3
    Details Little Women Alcott, Louisa May 1832 1888 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 16000 185220
    (463)
    19.5 1.41 10.8 68.0 8.6
    Details Struwwelpeter: Merry Stories and Funny Pictures Hoffmann, Heinrich 1809 1894 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 14000 2343
    (5)
    14.7 1.27 6.8 84.1 5.2
    Details The Jungle Sinclair, Upton 1878 1968 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 147652
    (369)
    22.3 1.39 12.0 66.4 9.5
    Details The Hound of the Baskervilles Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 58745
    (146)
    15.0 1.42 9.3 71.8 7.0
    Details The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Pr Vatsyayana Burton, Richard Francis, Sir (1821) (1890) 2000 4000 8000 11000 15000 23000 58153
    (145)
    21.3 1.49 12.9 59.1 10.3
    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 Treasure Island Stevenson, Robert Louis 1850 1894 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 19000 67669
    (169)
    17.9 1.35 9.3 74.3 7.3
    Details The Count of Monte Cristo Dumas, Alexandre 1802 1870 2000 4000 8000 10000 13000 18000 457024
    (1142)
    16.8 1.49 11.3 63.6 8.6
    Details The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races Allen, Emory Adams 1853 3000 4000 7000 10000 13000 19000 206643
    (516)
    18.2 1.56 13.0 56.2 9.9
    Details The Sorrows of Young Werther Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Boylan, R. Dillon 1749 1832 3000 4000 6000 9000 11000 15000 42359
    (105)
    17.7 1.48 11.3 63.4 8.8
    Details The Critique of Pure Reason Kant, Immanuel Meiklejohn, J. M. D. (John Miller Dow) 1724 (1830) 1804 (1902) 3000 4000 7000 10000 15000 18000 206467
    (516)
    35.8 1.72 22.9 24.9 18.7
    Details The Prince Machiavelli, Niccolò Marriott, W. K. (William K.) 1469 1527 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 17000 49271
    (123)
    38.0 1.54 20.8 38.2 17.4
    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 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 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 Andersen's Fairy Tales Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian) 1805 1875 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 55132
    (137)
    17.7 1.36 9.6 73.4 7.4
    Details The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The Equiano, Olaudah 1745 1797 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 17000 81664
    (204)
    29.1 1.46 15.7 53.5 13.0
    Details The Awakening and Selected Short Stories Chopin, Kate 1850 1904 2000 4000 8000 10000 13000 20000 63540
    (158)
    14.5 1.47 9.8 67.9 7.4
    Details A Treatise of Human Nature Hume, David 1711 1776 3000 4000 6000 9000 12000 16000 225521
    (563)
    31.6 1.65 19.8 35.3 16.2
    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 Leviathan Hobbes, Thomas 1588 1679 3000 4000 7000 10000 14000 19000 211956
    (529)
    34.2 1.51 19.0 44.3 15.6
    Details The Invisible Man Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) 1866 1946 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 19000 47694
    (119)
    12.5 1.47 8.6 70.2 6.6
    Details Selected Sermons of Jonathan Edwards Edwards, Jonathan 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 16000 70313
    (175)
    25.6 1.49 15.3 55.1 11.9
    Details Heart of Darkness Conrad, Joseph 1857 1924 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 17000 37389
    (93)
    15.6 1.47 10.0 66.8 7.8
    Details A Modest Proposal Swift, Jonathan 1667 1745 3000 4000 7000 9000 14000 18000 3406
    (8)
    50.8 1.53 25.1 25.5 22.3
    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 English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English- Long, William J. (William Joseph) 1867 1952 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 18000 204834
    (512)
    22.9 1.6 15.1 48.5 12.2
    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 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Douglass, Frederick 1818 1895 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 40404
    (101)
    20.3 1.48 12.3 60.7 9.8
    Details Best Russian Short Stories 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 94443
    (236)
    15.3 1.47 10.4 66.6 7.8
    Details Second Variety Dick, Philip K. 1928 1982 2000 4000 5000 6000 8000 11000 15191
    (37)
    6.3 1.41 5.1 81.4 3.5
    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 The Antichrist Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis) 1844 (1880) 1900 (1956) 3000 4000 7000 10000 12000 18000 32360
    (80)
    32.0 1.59 18.7 39.5 15.7
    Details The Canterville Ghost Wilde, Oscar 1854 1900 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 19000 11587
    (28)
    26.1 1.49 14.9 54.5 12.1
    Details The Picture of Dorian Gray Wilde, Oscar 1854 1900 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 24000 78609
    (196)
    12.1 1.43 8.3 73.3 6.0

    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.
    The authors and the translators displayed in the table are only one of multiple data stated in the catalog.rdf, if the work is composed by more than one author or translator, for ease of processing the data in this website.
    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.