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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 Elevator Systems of the Eiffel Tower, 1889 Vogel, Robert M. 3000 4000 6000 8000 11000 16000 12934
    (32)
    20.1 1.73 15.8 40.1 12.7
    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 Little Wars; a game for boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty a Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) 1866 1946 2000 4000 6000 7000 11000 15000 15145
    (37)
    23.0 1.49 13.8 57.4 11.0
    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 Sense and Sensibility Austen, Jane 1775 1817 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 15000 117920
    (294)
    24.3 1.51 14.9 54.1 11.8
    Details Emma Austen, Jane 1775 1817 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 15000 155516
    (388)
    20.8 1.47 12.4 61.1 9.9
    Details Mansfield Park Austen, Jane 1775 1817 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 15000 157622
    (394)
    22.6 1.48 13.3 59.1 10.6
    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 The Communist Manifesto Engels, Friedrich 1820 1895 3000 5000 8000 10000 11000 15000 11413
    (28)
    24.1 1.81 19.1 29.5 15.1
    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 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 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 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 My Secret Life, Volumes I. to III. 1888 Edition Anonymous 2000 3000 7000 9000 12000 15000 263497
    (658)
    18.4 1.37 9.6 72.1 7.8
    Details A Doll's House : a play Ibsen, Henrik 1828 1906 1000 2000 4000 6000 8000 15000 26051
    (65)
    7.9 1.37 5.2 82.9 3.6
    Details On War — Volume 1 Clausewitz, Carl von Graham, J. J., Colonel 1780 1831 3000 3000 5000 7000 9000 15000 106755
    (266)
    34.3 1.59 20.0 37.3 16.6
    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 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 The Problems of Philosophy Russell, Bertrand 1872 1970 2000 3000 4000 6000 8000 15000 42186
    (105)
    27.3 1.56 16.8 47.2 13.5
    Details The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 3000 5000 7000 9000 15000 87120
    (217)
    15.7 1.43 9.7 69.9 7.4
    Details Philippine Folk Tales 2000 3000 5000 7000 9000 15000 48249
    (120)
    21.8 1.37 11.5 68.7 9.1
    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 Diary of an Enlisted Man Alstyne, Lawrence Van 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 15000 120903
    (302)
    14.6 1.36 8.3 76.8 6.2
    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 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 A Little Princess; being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first ti Burnett, Frances Hodgson 1849 1924 2000 3000 6000 7000 10000 15000 65747
    (164)
    13.9 1.4 8.5 74.1 6.4
    Details Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) 1822 1885 2000 3000 5000 7000 9000 15000 276868
    (692)
    20.5 1.55 13.9 54.7 10.7
    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 Elements of Style Strunk, William 3000 4000 7000 9000 10000 15000 13203
    (33)
    15.7 1.65 13.1 51.3 10.0
    Details Grimm's Fairy Stories Grimm, Wilhelm 1786 1859 2000 3000 5000 7000 9000 15000 50632
    (126)
    23.0 1.31 11.1 72.8 8.8
    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 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 Old Scrooge: A Christmas Carol in Five Staves. Dramatized from Charles Dickens' Scott, Charles A. 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 15000 13160
    (32)
    6.6 1.39 5.1 82.1 3.4
    Details Rilla of Ingleside Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud) 1874 1942 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 15000 101158
    (252)
    15.1 1.42 9.0 71.5 7.0
    Details The Grand Inquisitor Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna) 1821 (1831) 1881 (1891) 3000 4000 7000 10000 11000 15000 9588
    (23)
    25.6 1.46 14.5 57.7 11.6
    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 The Adventure of the Dying Detective Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 15000 5730
    (14)
    10.4 1.43 7.6 75.0 5.4
    Details Life in the Iron-Mills; or, the Korl Woman Davis, Rebecca Harding 1831 1910 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 15000 14838
    (37)
    13.6 1.38 7.8 76.2 6.0
    Details The Princess of Cleves La Fayette, Madame de (Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne) 1634 1693 2000 4000 6000 9000 12000 15000 61526
    (153)
    56.6 1.45 26.7 27.1 23.5
    Details Herland Gilman, Charlotte Perkins 1860 1935 2000 3000 5000 7000 9000 15000 51298
    (128)
    15.4 1.47 10.2 67.1 7.7
    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 The Princess and the Goblin Mac 1824 1905 1000 3000 5000 8000 9000 15000 50659
    (126)
    15.8 1.35 8.6 76.9 6.5
    Details Principles Of Political Economy Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical, and Exp Mill, John Stuart 1806 1873 3000 3000 5000 7000 9000 15000 231338
    (578)
    23.3 1.65 16.3 43.5 13.0

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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.