Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is the fifth and longest book in her series. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire, A Game of Thrones, is also his shortest while J. Interestingly, the first book in George R. Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander has to be the quickest 305,000 words I’ve ever read. And some of these are downright page turners. Some of the most beloved classics in literature sit in the 300,000 word range. If you’re writing a 300,000-word novel, you’re in good company. And Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind won the Pulitzer Prize. Still, if it’s fame and glory you’re chasing, why not? David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest is a cult classic. And if you only manage 500 words a day, double that to 800 days, over 2 years. Think you can manage writing a 400,000-word novel? If you were going to write 1,000 words a day, that would take 400 days, more than a year. I’ve only read the first volume, Swann’s Way, and loved it, but I’m not sure I’ll ever get around to reading the rest of the books.
WORD COUNT OF FAMOUS BOOKS SERIES
(And for more on that, check out the Wikipedia entry for List of Longest Novels.) Many people put reading Marcel Proust’s seven-volume In Search of Lost Time series on their reading bucket list. Here we see some of the longest novels in the world in the 500,000-word and up level. Now we’ll move along to look at this list of 177 word counts of popular novels. (Though I’d of course take The Stand over any novel ever.) For more Stephen King book word counts, see this ver y detailed Reddit thread. I’d gladly take more of those over another novel. On Writing is one of my favorite guides to writing. His writing guide and memoir On Writing is 79,139, meaning The Stand holds approximately six (5.957) books of On Writing‘s length within it. In this list, you can see that The Stand: Uncut is 471,485 words. It’s also fun to look at the word counts in the work of one author in particular, so I decided to do a little exploring and find out the word counts of some books by a beloved author, Stephen King, a prolific writer with millions of words among his many books.
WORD COUNT OF FAMOUS BOOKS PLUS
Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (190,858), Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (169,441), and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (198,227) plus about half of Albert Camus’ The Stranger (36,014) The HobbitĪuthor in focus: word count of Stephen King’s books Tolkien’s four-volume Lord of the Rings series is 576,459. Word count of the Lord of the Rings series The series is incomplete, so there could still be more words on the way! That’s about the length of Stephen King’s It (445,134) times four (1,781,736). Martin’s five-volume A Song of Ice and Fire series is 1,770,000. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion (130,115) three times. The word count of Philip Pullman’s three-book His Dark Materials fantasy series is 390,575, about the length of reading J. That’s like reading Stephen King’s The Stand: Uncut at 471,485 words and a third of Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea at 26,601 words. Le Guin’s six-book Earthsea series is 480,503. That’s approximately the same length as Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote (344,665). Lewis’ seven-book Chronicles of Narnia series is 345,535. Word count of The Chronicles of Narnia series
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
That’s like reading David Foster Wallaces’s Infinite Jest (488,940) twice. Rowling’s seven-book Harry Potter series is 1,084,625. The 20+ Best Books on Creative Writing My picks for the best books on creative writing A few series in focusīefore we dive into the list, let’s explore the word count of a few popular fantasy series and one favorite, bestselling author who racks up high word counts.