Searching for books with a corresponding renaissance accelerated reader 360 quiz is easy with accelerated reader bookfinder. Word count for famous novels organized by hawthorn mineart, under books, writing. What writers fail to see is that for every successful exception to the rule e. Word count for famous novels, in ascending order by number of words. Word count, with a little help from amazon alexis grant. For the book hatchet, the actual word count is 41,672 and i give you. But no agent would get to know that because theyd see memoir. Find out how long it will take you to read any book by using our book word count search. Deconstructing five spooky picture books with spoilers and word counts. How to find out the number of words in a book pen and the pad. Reading length is a participant in the amazon services llc associates program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to and affiliated sites. Calculate book page count using word count for book design. Your guide to book word counts fiction and nonfiction. Finding your books word count depends on which writing software youre using to write it.
There are several methods for determining the word count of a given book. A books word count does matter and if you get it wrong, this can impact your book sales. If you are an author of a book or know of a books accurate wordcount, contact me. Where can i find a database of all published books word counts and. While page counts are a common but not universal feature of bibliographic metadata, word counts are much less frequently provided and are not at all mandatory. Because it allows me to check out length for published books in my genre. At times the readers of books may be interested in discovering how many words they read.
Rowlings recordbreaking series began with two titles on the high end of that spectrum and finished with five that left the guidelines in the dust. Free word online counter for journalists, students, writers, researchers. The graphic looks at the length of some famous novels, poems, and plays from literary history. Search for a book, tell us how fast you read, and start reading. Youll use the word count in your word document to calculate book page count. If youre not a thriller author, i wont keep you in suspense. Writer and typewriter readers find articles with interesting information enjoyable. Estimate the reading time for any book using reading length. Search for word count totals in books word counters. For average word counts based on genre, see this handy reference. As for nonfiction books, the standard bestsellers have word counts similar to adult novels.
These include using published information about the book to. The hunger games has a word count of 99,750 and my utility calculates it at 98,916. At the end of this article, youre going to find a guide to suggested word count length for. Authors writing your book, pupils working on your essay, selfemployed word smiths. Word count estimates are not guaranteed to be accurate. First of all, find your word count in word by opening your document and looking at the bottom left of your screen. Based on this list compiled by nicole humphrey cook. These include using published information about the book to determine an exact word count, estimating the number of words based on industry standards and sampling to capture the. First of all, find your word count in word by opening your. Unfortunately, they dont offer word count so ive created an algorithm based on the number of pages, genre, and the dimensions of the book. Once you know your word count, follow one of our two methods below to estimate your page count. Pencilthin books on narrow topics that are under 50,000 words are quite common.
However, there is a wide range of acceptable word counts for nonfiction books. The harry potter books are young adult titles, and ya publishers generally look for manuscripts in the 50,000 to 80,000 word range. Two ways to estimate your word count audiobook creation. Word count for famous novels organized commonplace book. When it gets closer to 1,000, editors and agents may shy away. The actual word count for harry potter and the sorcerers stone is 78,792 and my utility calculates 77,876.