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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 Theresa Raquin Zola, Émile Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred 1840 (1853) 1902 (1922) 3000 5000 7000 10000 12000 16000 70860
    (177)
    17.4 1.49 11.4 62.8 8.8
    Details The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) Cooking, Toilet and Household Recipes, Menus, Din Ziemann, Hugo 1828 1926 4000 6000 10000 13000 16000 21000 219613
    (549)
    15.7 1.43 9.1 69.6 7.5
    Details Carpentry for Boys In a Simple Language, Including Chapters on Drawing, Laying O Zerbe, James Slough 1850 3000 5000 9000 12000 16000 21000 37590
    (93)
    11.4 1.51 9.2 67.5 6.7
    Details Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Complete Young, Filson 1876 1938 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 21000 161166
    (402)
    35.3 1.5 19.2 44.2 15.9
    Details Autobiography of a Yogi Yogananda, Paramahansa 1893 1952 3000 6000 9000 13000 16000 22000 153564
    (383)
    15.3 1.66 12.6 50.5 10.0
    Details Poems Yeats, W. B. (William Butler) 1865 1939 3000 5000 9000 11000 13000 22000 36280
    (90)
    20.6 1.34 10.0 72.5 8.3
    Details Anabasis Xenophon Dakyns, Henry Graham 431BC (1838) 350BC (1911) 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 20000 93859
    (234)
    26.4 1.47 15.1 55.8 12.0
    Details Swiss Family Robinson Wyss, Johann David 1743 1818 3000 5000 7000 10000 12000 20000 126097
    (315)
    24.6 1.47 14.0 57.9 11.3
    Details The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 3 Wordsworth, William 1770 1850 3000 6000 9000 11000 14000 21000 118027
    (295)
    29.5 1.48 15.9 52.0 13.3
    Details Night and Day Woolf, Virginia 1882 1941 2000 3000 6000 7000 9000 14000 164999
    (412)
    18.4 1.49 11.9 62.0 9.2
    Details The Voyage Out Woolf, Virginia 1882 1941 2000 3000 5000 7000 9000 14000 134240
    (335)
    16.4 1.44 10.1 67.9 7.9
    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 The Adventures of Sally Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) 1881 1975 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 17000 76500
    (191)
    12.1 1.46 8.5 70.8 6.4
    Details Psmith, Journalist Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) 1881 1975 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 56439
    (141)
    11.2 1.46 8.2 71.9 6.0
    Details Love Among the Chickens Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) 1881 1975 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 17000 49955
    (124)
    11.2 1.45 7.9 72.7 5.9
    Details Death at the Excelsior And Other Stories Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) 1881 1975 2000 3000 6000 9000 12000 17000 37282
    (93)
    11.9 1.44 7.9 73.0 6.0
    Details Right Ho, Jeeves Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) 1881 1975 2000 4000 8000 13000 17000 24000 73251
    (183)
    11.4 1.44 7.8 73.2 5.9
    Details A Damsel in Distress Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) 1881 1975 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 17000 76064
    (190)
    11.6 1.46 8.3 71.8 6.1
    Details The Man with Two Left Feet And Other Stories Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) 1881 1975 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 21000 70421
    (176)
    12.3 1.41 7.9 75.2 5.8
    Details A Wodehouse Miscellany Articles & Stories Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) 1881 1975 2000 4000 6000 9000 12000 18000 29348
    (73)
    12.3 1.45 8.4 71.7 6.3
    Details Something New Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) 1881 1975 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 17000 73645
    (184)
    12.8 1.47 9.1 69.9 6.7
    Details Dan Carter and the Great Carved Face Wirt, Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) 1905 2002 2000 4000 6000 8000 9000 13000 35128
    (87)
    9.9 1.44 7.8 74.7 5.3
    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 Lives of Illustrious Shoemakers Winks, William Edward 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 99421
    (248)
    20.5 1.55 13.5 54.9 10.7
    Details Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part I Windsor, H. H. (Henry Haven) 1859 1924 3000 4000 9000 12000 13000 19000 18024
    (45)
    13.6 1.42 9.1 72.7 6.5
    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 Swastika The Earliest Known Symbol, and Its Migration; with Observations on Wilson, Thomas 4000 7000 10000 14000 18000 22000 94225
    (235)
    9.4 1.66 10.9 57.1 7.6
    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 The Importance of Being Earnest Wilde, Oscar 1854 1900 2000 3000 7000 9000 14000 21000 20449
    (51)
    7.8 1.55 8.4 68.1 5.7
    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
    Details An Ideal Husband Wilde, Oscar 1854 1900 1000 3000 5000 7000 10000 17000 28974
    (72)
    7.5 1.47 6.3 75.2 4.6
    Details The Picture of Dorian Gray Wilde, Oscar 1854 1900 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 24000 54516
    (136)
    12.9 1.43 8.6 72.6 6.3
    Details De Profundis Wilde, Oscar 1854 1900 2000 4000 6000 9000 12000 18000 17584
    (43)
    23.7 1.41 13.1 63.2 10.3
    Details The Affair at the Inn Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith 1856 1923 2000 4000 7000 9000 13000 17000 33539
    (83)
    18.1 1.46 10.9 64.8 8.7
    Details Katerfelto A Story of Exmoor Whyte-Melville, G. J. (George John) 1821 1878 3000 6000 10000 13000 14000 20000 87404
    (218)
    20.7 1.45 11.9 62.9 9.6
    Details Leaves of Grass Whitman, Walt 1819 1892 4000 6000 9000 11000 14000 22000 120543
    (301)
    33.2 1.46 16.8 49.9 14.6
    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 A Short History of H.M.S. Victory Wharton, William James Lloyd 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 17000 15824
    (39)
    28.9 1.52 16.8 49.3 13.6
    Details Ethan Frome Wharton, Edith 1862 1937 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 14000 34572
    (86)
    19.4 1.39 10.3 69.7 8.4
    Details The House of Mirth Wharton, Edith 1862 1937 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 16000 127415
    (318)
    21.9 1.49 13.1 58.4 10.5
    Details The Age of Innocence Wharton, Edith 1862 1937 2000 5000 7000 9000 12000 20000 99922
    (249)
    19.8 1.5 12.3 60.1 9.8
    Details Myths and Legends of China Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) 1864 1954 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 21000 117310
    (293)
    21.9 1.52 13.6 55.8 10.9
    Details Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 Welsh, Peter C. 3000 5000 9000 13000 14000 21000 11740
    (29)
    15.1 1.77 14.4 41.3 11.3
    Details Southern Horrors Lynch Law in All Its Phases Wells-Barnett, Ida B. 1862 1931 3000 4000 7000 10000 11000 16000 9490
    (23)
    22.0 1.56 13.9 52.8 11.4
    Details The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United Wells-Barnett, Ida B. 1862 1931 3000 5000 8000 10000 11000 16000 33314
    (83)
    20.7 1.54 13.4 55.5 10.7
    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 The War of the Worlds Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) 1866 1946 3000 5000 7000 9000 11000 16000 59603
    (149)
    18.2 1.49 11.1 62.4 9.1
    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 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

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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.