Word counts of famous novels
Here are some word counts of famous novels, sorted from long to short:
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth – 591,554 words (source)
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand – 561,996 words (source)
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy – 561,304 words (source)
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace – 543,709 words (source)
A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin – 424,000 words (source)
A Dance of Dragons by George R.R. Martin – 422,000 words (source)
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell – 418,053 words (source)
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry – 365,712 words (source)
A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin – 326,000 words (source)
A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin – 300,000 words (source)
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin – 298,000 words (source)
Ulysses by James Joyce – 262,869 words (source)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling – 257,045 words (source)
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova – 240,000 words (source)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon – 216,020 words (source)
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville – 209,117 words (source)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling – 198,227 words (source)
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen – 196,774 words (source)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – 190,637 words (source)
The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien – 187,790 words (source)
Dune by Frank Herbert – 187,240 words (source)
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck – 169,481 words (source)
White Teeth by Zadie Smith – 169,389 words (source)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling – 168,923 words (source)
The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien – 156,198 words (source)
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger – 155,717 words (source)
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez – 144,523 words (source)
The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien – 137,115 words (source)
Atonement by Ian McEwan – 123,378 words (source)
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer – 118,975 words (source)
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman – 112,815 words (source)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – 107,253 words (source)
Divergent by Veronica Roth – 105,143 words (source)
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee – 100,388 words (source)
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins – 99,750 words (source)
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien – 95,356 words (source)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling – 85,141 words (source)
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson – 84,845 words (source)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling – 76,944 words (source)
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger – 73,404 words (source)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain – 70,570 words (source)
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway – 67,707 words (source)
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green – 67,203 words (source)
The Color Purple by Alice Walker – 66,556 words (source)
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley – 64,531 words (source)
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf – 63,422 words (source)
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton – 48,523 words (source)
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald – 47,094 words (source)
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams – 46,333 words (source)
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon – 46,573 words (source)
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis – 38,421 words (source)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl – 30,644 words (source)
Animal Farm by George Orwell – 29,966 words (source)
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