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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 Yellow Wallpaper Gilman, Charlotte Perkins 1860 1935 1000 2000 5000 8000 11000 15000 6023
    (15)
    15.4 1.38 8.3 74.2 6.7
    Details Robinson Crusoe Defoe, Daniel 1661 1731 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 17000 120387
    (300)
    49.5 1.38 22.5 39.8 20.0
    Details Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners Freud, Sigmund Eder, M. D. (Montague David) 1856 (1866) 1939 (1936) 3000 4000 6000 8000 11000 16000 53068
    (132)
    25.7 1.64 17.2 42.3 13.7
    Details My Man Jeeves Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) 1881 1975 2000 3000 5000 8000 12000 19000 50312
    (125)
    10.8 1.4 7.0 77.1 5.2
    Details Anna Karenina Tolstoy, Leo, graf Garnett, Constance 1828 (1861) 1910 (1946) 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 15000 348306
    (870)
    16.8 1.46 10.8 66.2 8.2
    Details The Secret Garden Burnett, Frances Hodgson 1849 1924 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 21000 79615
    (199)
    13.2 1.35 7.4 79.0 5.5
    Details Pride and Prejudice Austen, Jane 1775 1817 2000 3000 5000 8000 11000 16000 119679
    (299)
    19.8 1.52 13.0 58.1 10.1
    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 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 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 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 16000 103757
    (259)
    14.9 1.43 9.3 70.8 7.1
    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 Secret Adversary Christie, Agatha 1890 1976 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 15000 74269
    (185)
    9.2 1.46 7.6 73.8 5.3
    Details Filipino Popular Tales 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 18000 204192
    (510)
    15.5 1.45 9.9 68.4 7.6
    Details Apology Plato Jowett, Benjamin 427BC (1817) 347BC (1893) 2000 3000 6000 8000 12000 17000 16049
    (40)
    28.8 1.46 15.8 54.0 12.9
    Details Euthyphro Plato Jowett, Benjamin 427BC (1817) 347BC (1893) 2000 3000 7000 8000 15000 19000 9188
    (22)
    19.3 1.48 13.0 62.1 9.4
    Details Dracula Stoker, Bram 1847 1912 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 16000 159139
    (397)
    18.2 1.36 9.8 73.3 7.5
    Details The Republic Plato Jowett, Benjamin 427BC (1817) 347BC (1893) 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 16000 215540
    (538)
    24.7 1.49 14.7 56.0 11.6
    Details Prestuplenie i nakazanie. English Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Garnett, Constance 1821 (1861) 1881 (1946) 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 15000 202487
    (506)
    14.3 1.47 10.0 67.6 7.4
    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 Grimm's Fairy Tales Grimm, Jacob 1785 1863 1000 3000 5000 8000 10000 16000 100994
    (252)
    22.3 1.28 10.4 76.2 8.2
    Details David Copperfield Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 17000 349774
    (874)
    17.7 1.45 10.7 66.4 8.4
    Details Northanger Abbey Austen, Jane 1775 1817 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 15000 76450
    (191)
    21.1 1.5 13.2 58.4 10.4
    Details The Return of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 15000 111170
    (277)
    14.2 1.44 9.2 71.0 6.9
    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 Utopia More, Thomas, Sir, Saint 1478 1535 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 14000 43401
    (108)
    55.4 1.43 26.2 29.7 22.9
    Details Democracy in America — Volume 1 Tocqueville, Alexis de Reeve, Henry 1805 (1813) 1859 (1895) 3000 4000 6000 8000 11000 16000 188399
    (470)
    33.7 1.67 21.0 31.4 17.3
    Details The Sex Life of the Gods Knerr, Michael 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 14000 32090
    (80)
    11.2 1.39 7.0 78.3 5.1
    Details The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Browne, Francis F. (Francis Fisher) 1843 1913 3000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 200768
    (501)
    22.5 1.58 14.8 50.5 11.8
    Details My Antonia Cather, Willa 1873 1947 2000 4000 6000 8000 11000 15000 80807
    (202)
    16.3 1.42 9.4 70.2 7.5
    Details How to Tell a Story and Other Essays Twain, Mark 1835 1911 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 18000 7146
    (17)
    21.7 1.43 12.0 64.0 9.7
    Details The Critique of Practical Reason Kant, Immanuel Abbott, Thomas Kingsmill 1724 (1829) 1804 (1913) 3000 3000 6000 8000 12000 17000 62637
    (156)
    50.4 1.64 27.2 16.6 23.4
    Details My First Picture Book With Thirty-six Pages of Pictures Printed in Colours by Kr Kronheim, Joseph Martin 1810 1896 2000 4000 6000 8000 11000 15000 4593
    (11)
    22.7 1.32 10.4 72.5 8.8
    Details The Behavior of Crowds A Psychological Study Martin, Everett Dean 3000 4000 7000 8000 10000 15000 70365
    (175)
    18.9 1.69 14.8 44.7 11.7
    Details Lady Susan Austen, Jane 1775 1817 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 14000 22830
    (57)
    23.7 1.54 14.6 52.6 11.8
    Details The Sea-Gull Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich 1860 1904 2000 3000 5000 8000 9000 16000 18866
    (47)
    9.7 1.43 7.0 75.7 5.1
    Details Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth Bradley, A. C. (Andrew Cecil) 1851 1935 3000 4000 7000 8000 11000 16000 165374
    (413)
    21.2 1.53 13.7 56.2 10.7
    Details Queen Victoria Browne, E. Gordon (Edgar Gordon) 1871 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 15000 33632
    (84)
    23.2 1.54 14.3 53.4 11.6
    Details The Rubicon Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic) 1867 1940 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 18000 74278
    (185)
    13.8 1.45 9.1 70.2 6.9
    Details The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides Crawley, Richard 455BC (1840) 395BC (1893) 2000 4000 6000 8000 11000 17000 204634
    (511)
    39.8 1.57 22.0 33.4 18.5
    Details The Garden Party and Other Stories Mansfield, Katherine 1888 1923 2000 4000 6000 8000 11000 16000 56598
    (141)
    10.5 1.39 6.6 78.9 4.9
    Details Very Short Stories and Verses For Children Clifford, W. K., Mrs. 1929 1000 2000 6000 8000 11000 16000 14400
    (36)
    16.8 1.3 7.9 79.9 6.3
    Details Gorgias Plato Jowett, Benjamin 427BC (1817) 347BC (1893) 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 17000 59271
    (148)
    23.6 1.5 14.7 56.3 11.3
    Details The Art of Cross-Examination With the Cross-Examinations of Important Witnesses Wellman, Francis L. 2000 3000 6000 8000 9000 15000 53685
    (134)
    14.8 1.56 11.1 60.0 8.6
    Details The Secret Sharer Conrad, Joseph 1857 1924 2000 4000 7000 8000 12000 17000 16439
    (41)
    14.4 1.43 9.0 70.9 6.9
    Details Laura Middleton; Her Brother and her Lover Anonymous 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 14000 32078
    (80)
    36.5 1.52 19.6 41.2 16.6
    Details The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 James, Henry 1843 1916 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 16000 115618
    (289)
    16.4 1.49 11.1 64.4 8.4
    Details Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 01 to 05 Twain, Mark 1835 1911 1000 2000 5000 8000 10000 14000 8575
    (21)
    17.3 1.3 8.5 79.1 6.5
    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

    Notes:

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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.