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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 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 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 Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews United States. Work Projects Administration 2000 6000 9000 15000 20000 22000 126940
    (317)
    17.2 1.35 8.8 75.6 7.0
    Details The jungle book Kipling, Rudyard 1865 1936 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 25000 51432
    (128)
    16.6 1.34 8.4 76.7 6.7
    Details Greek Sculpture A collection of sixteen pictures of Greek marbles with introduct Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May) 1863 1924 3000 5000 8000 12000 16000 23000 17268
    (43)
    17.7 1.56 12.6 56.6 9.8
    Details Sex-linked Inheritance in Drosophila Morgan, Thomas Hunt 1866 1945 4000 7000 13000 13000 14000 24000 27302
    (68)
    14.2 1.66 11.4 52.4 9.5
    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 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 Big Trip Up Yonder Vonnegut, Kurt 1922 2007 3000 5000 12000 16000 16000 16000 3562
    (8)
    13.5 1.49 9.6 66.9 7.3
    Details Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess Fischer, Henry W. (Henry William) 1856 1932 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 19000 62978
    (157)
    16.5 1.54 11.3 59.5 9.0
    Details Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. With a Proem by Carroll, Lewis 1832 1898 2000 4000 7000 10000 15000 19000 26821
    (67)
    16.4 1.36 8.7 74.9 6.9
    Details The Crystal Crypt Dick, Philip K. 1928 1982 2000 4000 5000 6000 8000 12000 7313
    (18)
    8.3 1.43 6.0 77.7 4.5
    Details How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, so Williams, Archibald 1871 1934 3000 5000 7000 10000 12000 20000 70756
    (176)
    16.5 1.56 11.6 58.0 9.3
    Details Myths of the Norsemen From the Eddas and Sagas Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline) 1859 1929 4000 6000 9000 11000 13000 22000 99800
    (249)
    31.1 1.49 16.7 48.9 14.2
    Details Deathworld Harrison, Harry 1925 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 17000 56945
    (142)
    11.4 1.42 7.5 75.0 5.6
    Details Hamlet Shakespeare, William 1564 1616 3000 6000 9000 13000 15000 22000 28983
    (72)
    8.3 1.43 6.8 77.6 4.5
    Details Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of Schlebecker, John T. 4000 6000 9000 11000 13000 18000 22455
    (56)
    7.1 1.71 9.7 54.7 7.4
    Details Peter and Wendy Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew) 1860 1937 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 19000 47114
    (117)
    14.8 1.36 8.4 76.5 6.3
    Details Shepp's Photographs of the World Shepp, James W.Shepp, Daniel B. 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 20000 26227
    (65)
    25.1 1.67 16.9 40.3 13.9
    Details The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856 Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 3000 6000 9000 11000 17000 134572
    (336)
    18.1 1.49 11.4 62.8 9.0
    Details The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan White, Ellen Gould Harmon 1827 1915 3000 5000 8000 10000 12000 17000 241259
    (603)
    17.1 1.53 12.3 60.2 9.1
    Details Moral Principles in Education Dewey, John 1859 1952 3000 3000 4000 6000 7000 12000 10720
    (26)
    22.1 1.69 16.1 41.4 13.0
    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 The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms. Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm 1844 1900 3000 5000 8000 10000 14000 18000 27312
    (68)
    22.6 1.6 14.9 48.3 12.1
    Details A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Lee, Sidney, Sir 1859 1926 3000 6000 9000 11000 14000 20000 132934
    (332)
    20.0 1.69 15.5 43.2 12.2
    Details Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) 1856 1919 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 18000 42069
    (105)
    16.3 1.4 9.8 71.5 7.3
    Details Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Script Talmage, James Edward 1862 1933 3000 6000 9000 12000 13000 18000 294595
    (736)
    23.6 1.55 15.2 51.9 11.9
    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 Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit Harris, Joel Chandler 1848 1908 2000 6000 9000 14000 17000 22000 6823
    (17)
    22.2 1.24 10.0 79.0 7.8
    Details The Arabian Nights Their Best-known Tales 2000 4000 8000 11000 13000 18000 114750
    (286)
    30.5 1.44 16.2 53.8 13.3
    Details The Good Old Songs We Used to Sing, '61 to '65 Oldroyd, Osborn H. (Osborn Hamiline) 1842 1930 4000 6000 9000 12000 14000 18000 6761
    (16)
    12.9 1.39 7.6 75.9 5.9
    Details Triplanetary Smith, E. E. (Edward Elmer) 1890 1965 3000 5000 7000 9000 12000 20000 56328
    (140)
    17.4 1.56 12.1 57.2 9.6
    Details Diary of Anna Green Winslow A Boston School Girl of 1771 Winslow, Anna Green 1759 1779 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 21000 27973
    (69)
    17.1 1.48 10.7 64.2 8.6
    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 Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Franklin, Benjamin 1706 1790 2000 4000 6000 9000 12000 19000 73971
    (184)
    27.2 1.54 16.1 49.0 13.2
    Details Voyage au centre de la terre. English Verne, Jules 1828 1905 3000 4000 7000 10000 12000 18000 85218
    (213)
    15.9 1.53 11.3 61.3 8.7
    Details The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred Morgan, William 1774 1826 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 19000 112150
    (280)
    13.8 1.51 10.3 65.4 7.6
    Details Little Black Sambo Bannerman, Helen 1862 1946 4000 5000 12000 12000 12000 12000 1153
    (2)
    16.0 1.41 9.0 71.2 7.3
    Details The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch Petrarca, Francesco 1304 1374 4000 6000 10000 13000 16000 22000 189869
    (474)
    22.6 1.43 12.7 63.0 10.1
    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 Full Revelations of a Professional Rat-catcher After 25 Years' Experience Matthews, Ike 1857 1913 2000 3000 7000 9000 12000 16000 14490
    (36)
    26.6 1.37 13.1 63.8 11.0
    Details The Raven Poe, Edgar Allan 1809 1849 4000 7000 10000 13000 17000 24000 7059
    (17)
    19.1 1.55 12.7 56.5 10.1
    Details The Nursery, No. 107, November, 1875, Vol. XVIII. A Monthly Magazine for Younges Various 2000 4000 6000 8000 11000 18000 8003
    (20)
    13.2 1.4 7.9 74.8 6.1
    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
    Details The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir 1857 1934 3000 5000 8000 12000 15000 20000 98023
    (245)
    23.6 1.44 13.3 61.2 10.6
    Details The Piazza Tales Melville, Herman 1819 1891 4000 6000 10000 12000 16000 21000 78731
    (196)
    23.0 1.55 14.2 52.4 11.7
    Details The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People Wilson, Woodrow 1856 1924 2000 3000 5000 6000 8000 14000 54535
    (136)
    27.1 1.54 16.5 48.8 13.2
    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 Knots, Splices and Rope Work A Practical Treatise Giving Complete and Simple Dir Verrill, A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt) 1871 1954 4000 6000 9000 14000 17000 21000 10808
    (27)
    16.3 1.46 10.1 67.1 7.9
    Details Anarchism and Other Essays Goldman, Emma 1869 1940 3000 5000 7000 9000 11000 16000 67167
    (167)
    21.2 1.64 15.1 46.2 12.1

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