With that in mind, ive tried to put together the definitive post on word count for fiction novels, young adult, middle grade, childrens books and even memoir. Searching for books with a corresponding renaissance accelerated reader 360 quiz is easy with accelerated reader bookfinder. Youll notice as your selecting the text, the footer is counting the selected passages. The average nonfiction book is about 50,000 to 75,000 words, which is about 153 to 230 ebook pages. Word count estimates are not guaranteed to be accurate. As for nonfiction books, the standard bestsellers have word counts similar to adult novels. Used book sales also are often the only place to find popular works that are no longer in print, such as norman dixonis on the psychology of military incompetence, which, according to the web site. Just type what you want to search for in the blank field above and click search. Whether you want the cheapest reading copy or a specific collectible edition, with bookfinder, youll find just the right book. Author eve tells me her book came in at 95,000 words. Students, teachers, parents, and librarians can search in english or spanish using criteria such as atos book level or a lexile measure, interest level, title.
Link accelerated reader bookfinder to your schools web page. Our word count tool site offers useful tools for your creative writing. That said, this figure differs from book to book and organization to. Estimate your page count book designer fiona raven. A lexile text measure is the measure of reading difficulty given to text, based on syntactic complexity sentence difficulty and length and word frequency how. The free word counter, character counter and typing speed finder lets you easily count words and characters in a paragraph or block of text. For a ballpark figure, you have approximately 10,000 words per 50 pages of manuscript if you are using 12pt font and 1 inch margins and doublespaced. Is there a website that gives the word counts on books. But that contract is dependent upon the books genre. Never pad your manuscript just to meet a wordcount guideline. To check word count, simply place your cursor into the text box above and start typing.
Accurate word counter, word count, character counter. The calculator counts number of unique words in a given text. Put simply, the sweet spot for a novels word count is generally said to be around 8090k. The eight harry potter books have an impressive combined word count of over 1 million words. As you can see, a smaller trim size will produce more pages for the same word count, and a larger trim size will produce less. For example, atonement has a word count of 123,378 and my utility comes up with 110,765 words. Since 1997, bookfinder has made it easy to find any book at the best price. How to find out the number of words in a book pen and. Search by title, author, illustrator, or keyword using the search box above. This tool is helpful for all authors everywhere who want to figure out how many pages their final book will contain based on their current word count. Access your personal book lists via the book wizard mobile app. We explain two easy methods to estimate your books page count. The actual word count for harry potter and the sorcerers stone is 78,792 and my utility calculates 77,876.
Im leaving this in the list to show that word count isnt offered for every book. Word count, with a little help from amazon alexis grant. At times the readers of books may be interested in discovering how many words they read. The hunger games has a word count of 99,750 and my utility calculates it at 98,916.
Search for word count totals in books word counters. In the meantime, overwriting to the point that your draft exceeds typical word count ranges is a common issue and those widelyaccepted ranges arent completely arbitrary. In this article, were going to look at how many words are in the harry potter series. In contrast, word count is finite and usually i can calculate book length with about 99% accuracy in part because also included in any calculation is a count of figures, tables, etc. It also can remove all the repetitions from the text. Level your classroom library or find books at just the right level for students with book wizard, the book finder from scholastic with guided. And remember, keeping to word counts is important, but what makes or breaks your chances with a publisher is. This article suggests that essentially, it should be as long as it needs to be, meaning dont look at the word count, just get the story out then edit. Search for a book, tell us how fast you read, and start reading. Word count matters because every book, regardless of genre, has an inherent contract with the reader.
Your guide to book word counts fiction and nonfiction. Word count for famous novels, in ascending order by number of words. Smashwords gives a precise word count for each and every b. Book page count calculator how many pages is my novel.
Students, teachers, parents, and librarians can search in english or spanish using criteria such as atos book level or a lexile measure, interest level, title, author, fictionnonfiction, subject, awardwinners, state lists, ccss exemplars, and more. The word count game is fun and infuriating to play. Line count varies depending on page size, font size, etc. I gathered the following numbers from ar book finder, which seems to be the only website giving word counts for books. Word counter is an easy to use online tool for counting words, characters, sentences, paragraphs and pages in real time, along with spelling and grammar checking. These include using published information about the book to determine an exact word count, estimating the number of words based on industry standards and. That includes scenes like the hero at the mercy of the villain, but. Are you wondering what the word count for your book should be. I was quickly flooded with emails from many an angry author for daring to put a word count on a level of book.
I have tried searching the words word count plus the title of a novel, like the lovely bones, and all i get is the word count of essays and articles about the book in question, not for the book itself. While its important that every story find its natural length, it takes time to develop an instinct as to what that length is. Wordcounter will help to make sure its word count reaches a specific requirement or stays within a certain limit. Standard word counts for books publishing with kindle.
You can go there to find age and reading levels for the books. Youll see the number of characters and words increase or decrease as you type, delete, and edit them. For the book hatchet, the actual word count is 41,672 and i give you 41,212. Stephen king word count 112263 274,672 bag of bones 203,3 black house 252,270 blockade billy 15,917 carrie 60,718 cell 121,931 christine 193,602 cujo 121,150 cycle of the werewolf 15,955 desperation.
You can search for book titles based on authors, topics, or titles of books. There are several methods for determining the word count of a given book. Many, yes, but there are exceptions due to the layout and font size of a particular book. Searching for accelerated reader books is fun and easy with this free online tool. Refine your results by reading level, grade, subject, and genre by using the search filters. Is there a simple way to do this, or do i have to copy and paste all the text from ind into a word file to get the number.
Hes about to start 5th grade at beecher prep, and if youve ever been the new kid then you know how hard that can be. Get started by typing directly into the text area above or pasting in your content from elsewhere. If you click on any book that your child is interested in, a little more info appears which includes the genre, isbn and word count. Search in english or spanish, using atos or lexile. I need to find out what the total word count is for the entire book. Word count tool is a word counter that provides an extensive statistics about the word count, character count, the number of characters without spaces.
A minimum count for a nonfiction ebook is about 10,000 words, as long as the content is solid. In itself, no measure is perfect but personally i find word count the most useful. We are also going to look at how harry potter is comparable to other young adult novels in regards to word count. The word count in picture books is sliding like stocks in 2008. How to use our book page count calculator select your word print size. I was a middle school english teacher, so know i know mg pretty well, and i am going to say i think casey is pretty spot on. Sword of destiny witcher series by andrzej sapkowski. I publish my books first on smashwords and then, after they pass vetting for the smashwords premium catalog, i publish them on amazon as well. For full titles, authors and descriptions of these books, see whats on my travel memoir bookshelf.
Find out how long it will take you to read any book by using our book word count search. If youre revising and want to figure out where in the book you met a certain word count, select your text at the very beginning of the document and keep scrolling. However, there is a wide range of acceptable word counts for nonfiction books. Show word count and other statistics in pages on mac. You have just discovered the wonderful world of bibliographic metadata. Shorter novels such as fahrenheit 451, the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, the great gatsby, and slaughterhousefive are between 4050,000 words. August auggie pullman was born with a facial deformity that prevented him from going to a mainstream schooluntil now. Pencilthin books on narrow topics that are under 50,000 words are quite common. I have a book that consists of 10 different files and many many different text boxes. Where can i find a database of all published books word. Word count for famous novels organized commonplace book. The calculator below gives the number of words in a text, number of unique words total number of words minus all word repetirions. For instance, when a reader picks up a thriller, they have certain expectations of what theyre about to read.
You can show the word count, character count with or without spaces, number of paragraphs, and number of pages in a document. For average word counts based on genre, see this handy reference. You can find the word counter tool, character counter tool, scrabble word finder, pomodoro timer, and. How can i find the total word count in my entire i. What is a good way to get the word count of a kindle book. Word count of famous novels reading novels is one of lifes pleasures you can get immersed in a whole different world. Search for books with a corresponding accelerated reader quiz with accelerated reader bookfinder.
If yours is too short, restructure it and add more tightly written stuff. Based on this list compiled by nicole humphrey cook. Once you reach that specific word count, stop and leave the cursor in. You may see show paragraph count or one of the other options instead, because the name of the menu item reflects the statistic thats. I dont need one of those equations to help calculate word count based on the number of pages times whatever.
If youve ever read a joke book or a book revolving around a humorous endeavor of some sort, it falls under this book category. Martins a song of ice and fire series, is the lengthiest of the five currently released books, with a word count of almost 415. Calculate book page count using word count for book design. 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.
Word count for novels and books is something i dont think about too often until i travel to a writers conference, and then someone asks a simple, innocent question. This tool also reports the number of syllables, monosyllabic words, polysyllabic words, sentences, paragraphs, unique words, short words, long words. The word count that your computer gives you is not a standard word count like they use in publishing. 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. When i began writing for kids a decade ago, i was told to keep it under 1200 words, ideally under. Word and character counts will display at the top, any writing mistakes will be. If you are an author of a book or know of a books accurate wordcount, contact me. Sharp objects has a word count of 80,565 and my utility calculates it at 80,7. Books in this genre are also often gag gifts or are meant to be facetious. You can also copy and paste text from another program over into the online editor above. You will then be able to sort your search results, select book titles to add to your ar bookbag, print a list of your search results, or start a new search. Calculate book page count using the word count from your word document. Better to have solid, clear information than rambling to make a page count. West plains daily quill, book sale at thomasville july 15, 2016.
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