#Most famous books series#
The entire A Song of Ice and Fire series (so far) – 1,770,000 words.Eragon, Christopher Paolini – 157,000 words.The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett – 65,113 words.American Gods, Neil Gaiman – 183,222 words.Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke – 308,931 words.So, most of the famous fantasy novels are over 110,000 words – although there are a few exceptions… One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez – 144,523 wordsįantasy readers usually expect all their books to be epic.The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck – 169,481 words.Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky – 211,591 words.Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand – 561,996 words.Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry – 365,712 words.Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen – 126,194 words.Catch-22, Joseph Heller – 174,269 words.Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë – 183,858 words.Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden – 186,418 words.For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway – 174,106 words.
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy – 349,736 words.War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy – 561,304 words.Les Miserables, Victor Hugo – 530,982 words.Great Expectations, Charles Dickens – 183,349 words.Bleak House, Charles Dickens – 360,947 words.The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde – 78,462 wordsĮpic novels are works of fiction that are 110,000 words or over.The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway – 67,707 words.Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson – 66,950 words.The Colour Purple, Alice Walker – 66,556 words.Black Beauty, Anna Sewell – 59,635 words.Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Wolf – 63,422 words.Lord of the Flies, William Golding – 59,900 words.As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner – 56,695 words.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain – 109,571 words.Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte – 107,945 words.Gullivers Travels, Jonathan Swift – 107,349 words.To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee – 100,388 words.However, there are intelligent books in all genres, so literary fiction is really just the upper echelons of books considered ‘good’ by revered critics and academics. One thing that seems to connect all books considered ‘literary’ is that they are all considered to be intelligently written. Literary fiction is a slightly difficult genre to define sometimes, as it tends to contain a mixture of all genres. Of course, figures differ depending on which publisher you ask, so the following figures are merely approximations derived from various sources. However, there are averages and rough word counts expected by publishers. There are no hard-and-fast rules when it comes to what word count a novel in a particular genre should be. An epic novel is anything over 110,000 words.The average novel is usually between 80,000 and 100,000 words.A novella is usually between 20,000 and 50,000 words.A short story is usually anything from 1,000 to 8,000 words, but many are often longer.Flash fiction is anything from 100 to 500 words.
What’s the Difference Between a Novel, a Novella, and a Short Story?įirst off, it’s important to be able to tell the difference between a novel and a novella, a short story and a piece of flash fiction. Make sure you take a look at our range of reading glasses if you need a little help reading your next book! The ultimate measure of a story’s size is its wordcount, however, so the literary geeks here at Foster Grant have put together a list of many of the most popular books and short stories in history for you. The number of pages also doesn’t help much, as publishers use different typefaces, page sizes, font sizes, etc. But because time sometimes slows down or speeds up when we’re engrossed in a good story, it’s very hard to compare the length of different stories by reflecting on our experiences. And you’ve probably wondered how long some of your favourite stories are. If you’re a big reader then you’ve probably read a mixture of very short and very long books in your lifetime.
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