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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 Country of the Blind, and Other Stories Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) 1866 1946 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 19000 158602
    (396)
    15.8 1.48 10.1 66.0 8.0
    Details The First Men in the Moon Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) 1866 1946 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 21000 67768
    (169)
    15.6 1.49 10.2 65.2 8.0
    Details A Short History of the World Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) 1866 1946 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 22000 111386
    (278)
    20.1 1.68 15.2 44.4 12.1
    Details The Door in the Wall and Other Stories Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) 1866 1946 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 19000 42660
    (106)
    16.7 1.43 9.8 69.0 7.8
    Details The Island of Doctor Moreau Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) 1866 1946 3000 5000 8000 10000 12000 19000 43537
    (108)
    14.7 1.48 9.7 66.5 7.6
    Details The War in the Air Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) 1866 1946 3000 5000 7000 10000 12000 19000 96478
    (241)
    16.1 1.51 10.9 62.4 8.5
    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 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
    Details The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession Wayburn, Ned 2000 4000 6000 8000 11000 18000 108666
    (271)
    22.1 1.55 14.4 53.4 11.3
    Details Textiles and Clothing Watson, Kate Heintz 4000 5000 10000 12000 15000 23000 41633
    (104)
    17.9 1.52 11.6 59.8 9.4
    Details Up from Slavery: an autobiography Washington, Booker T. 1856 1915 2000 3000 4000 6000 7000 12000 76133
    (190)
    24.6 1.5 14.3 55.1 11.7
    Details The Viking Blood A Story of Seafaring Wallace, Frederick William 3000 6000 9000 12000 16000 22000 138112
    (345)
    16.3 1.45 9.7 67.8 7.8
    Details 2 B R 0 2 B Vonnegut, Kurt 1922 2007 2000 3000 7000 9000 10000 14000 2501
    (6)
    9.4 1.46 7.5 74.1 5.3
    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 Candide Voltaire 1694 1778 3000 5000 8000 11000 15000 21000 35400
    (88)
    18.0 1.5 11.7 61.4 9.2
    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 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 The Aeneid English Virgil Dryden, John 70BC (1631) 19BC (1700) 4000 6000 10000 13000 16000 23000 106024
    (265)
    24.5 1.34 11.8 68.2 9.8
    Details Fictitious & Symbolic Creatures in Art With Special Reference to Their Use in Br Vinycomb, John 4000 7000 12000 16000 19000 23000 52424
    (131)
    22.9 1.6 15.1 48.3 12.2
    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 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 Île mystérieuse. English Verne, Jules 1828 1905 3000 4000 7000 10000 12000 18000 192750
    (481)
    17.8 1.5 11.8 62.0 9.0
    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 In the Year 2889 Verne, Jules 1828 1905 3000 4000 6000 8000 12000 18000 5492
    (13)
    13.1 1.57 11.0 60.7 8.0
    Details Voyage au centre de la terre. English Verne, Jules Malleson, Frederick Amadeus 1828 (1819) 1905 (1897) 3000 5000 7000 10000 13000 19000 73544
    (183)
    14.7 1.51 10.6 63.9 8.0
    Details From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon Verne, Jules 1828 1905 3000 5000 8000 11000 12000 20000 90543
    (226)
    15.8 1.59 12.5 56.4 9.3
    Details Vingt mille lieues sous les mers. English Verne, Jules 1828 1905 3000 5000 10000 15000 18000 24000 102277
    (255)
    15.2 1.52 10.9 62.5 8.3
    Details Theory of the Leisure Class Veblen, Thorstein 1857 1929 3000 6000 9000 12000 13000 19000 105017
    (262)
    33.7 1.76 21.7 24.1 18.3
    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 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 Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1913 Various 5000 9000 15000 18000 20000 24000 53847
    (134)
    4.6 1.89 10.4 42.6 8.5
    Details Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 Various 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 16000 84493
    (211)
    12.1 1.5 9.1 67.6 6.8
    Details Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete Various 3000 5000 9000 12000 15000 21000 335852
    (839)
    20.4 1.57 13.6 53.1 10.9
    Details The Illustrated War News, Number 15, Nov. 18, 1914 Various 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 21000 9530
    (23)
    19.3 1.62 13.7 50.2 11.1
    Details New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 1, No. 1 From the Beginnin Various 3000 4000 7000 10000 12000 18000 130202
    (325)
    23.1 1.58 15.0 49.8 12.0
    Details Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 15, Slice 7 Kelly, Edward to Kite Various 3000 5000 9000 12000 16000 22000 169040
    (422)
    16.7 1.66 13.4 49.8 10.5
    Details The Story of Mankind Van Loon, Hendrik Willem 1882 1944 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 16000 128493
    (321)
    21.3 1.56 14.0 53.3 11.1
    Details A Text-Book of the History of Painting Van Dyke, John Charles 1856 1932 3000 5000 8000 11000 15000 23000 70887
    (177)
    14.4 1.71 12.8 47.9 10.2
    Details Ramayana. English Valmiki Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) (1826) (1906) 4000 6000 10000 12000 16000 22000 394725
    (986)
    19.0 1.38 10.5 70.4 8.1
    Details Salem Witchcraft, Volumes I and II With an Account of Salem Village and a Histor Upham, Charles Wentworth 1802 1875 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 294773
    (736)
    22.0 1.56 14.4 52.6 11.4
    Details The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Unknown Ingram, J. H. (James Henry) (1774) (1850) 3000 5000 9000 13000 15000 22000 93358
    (233)
    16.3 1.46 10.7 67.2 7.9
    Details Pennsylvania Dutch Cooking Unknown 5000 7000 9000 12000 16000 21000 14689
    (36)
    10.4 1.49 7.6 70.3 6.0
    Details The Ladies' Work-Book Containing Instructions In Knitting, Crochet, Point-Lace, Unknown 2000 4000 6000 11000 12000 15000 33352
    (83)
    8.1 1.35 5.5 84.2 3.5
    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 Science of Fingerprints Classification and Uses United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation 3000 4000 6000 10000 12000 19000 45835
    (114)
    19.7 1.67 14.9 45.4 11.8
    Details The 2010 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency 3000 5000 8000 12000 15000 24000 1297237
    (3243)
    13.8 2.0 16.9 23.4 13.4
    Details The Declaration of Independence of The United States of America United States 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 17000 1478
    (3)
    39.9 1.71 24.3 21.5 20.2
    Details All About Coffee Ukers, William H. (William Harrison) 1873 1945 3000 5000 8000 12000 15000 22000 387030
    (967)
    13.8 1.67 11.8 51.5 9.5
    Details Life on the Mississippi Twain, Mark 1835 1911 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 19000 142729
    (356)
    20.7 1.47 12.0 61.4 9.8
    Details Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Twain, Mark 1835 1911 1000 3000 6000 9000 12000 20000 110968
    (277)
    42.0 1.3 18.2 54.1 16.2

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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.