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Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wildeįrankenstein Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Grimms’ Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm GrimmĪ Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe

Gulliver’s Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle Augustine by Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine Thus Spake Zarathustra – A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David ThoreauĪdventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson Moby Dick Or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleĬrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumasĭon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra The Lord of the Rings, the novel written by J. With an updated word count of popular, much-loved books, this is a useful aid for those who are learning and want to read them.īelow we sum up the word count of the top 100 most popular favorite books, hoping to help you. It will help readers determine a reasonable length of time and a reading schedule for each book. At 219 words, it’s basically a long paragraph.If you are a book lover, you will probably be interested in the number of words (length) of the book many times.

3 John is the shortest book of the bible.

The books of the Old Testament are about 2.5 times longer than the books of the New Testament (about 5,000 words compared to over 12,000).

The Old Testament and the four Gospels are almost 90% of the Bible.

The Torah, or the first five books of the Bible, are fully one-fifth of the total length.

– “1” is the longest book, “2” is the next longest, etc.)Ī few observations which I found interesting.

Rank: The order of this book by length, from longest to shortest (i.e.

Cum(ulative) Percent: The cumulative percent of words through the end of this book – if you read through this book, what percent of total words would you have read?.

Cum(ulative) Words: The cumulative words through the end of this book – if you read through this book, what total number of words would you have read?.

Percent: The percent of total words that particular book – in isolation – comprises.

Testament: The testament the book is in: ld or ew.

This was originally in a spreadsheet, but since the counts aren’t likely to change, I’ve flattened them here to a table. So I compiled the below from a list of counts in the King James version (I figured this was canonical-ish), then did some math. I felt like I needed to know my progress and context, to stay motivated to get it done. I couldn’t find this exact one, but here’s a very similar example on Amazon.ĭuring this process, I got interested in word counts, primarily to keep up my motivation. The picture at the top of this page is from my reading Bible. It makes reading the Bible a much different experience than a traditional Bible. Mine didn’t even have chapter numbers, except in the footer next to the page number. There are no verse numbers, no footnotes, and the text is in larger type, usually down a single column. This is a version of the Bible designed for narrative reading, rather than research or reference. If you want to do this, my sole recommendation is to get a reading Bible. I read the New King James Version for the first time, then switched to The Message for the second time, though I couldn’t handle it and switched to the New International Version about halfway through. I took the rest of the year completing the second read. The first time, I did it as a speed-run challenge – I got it done in 73 days.