According to amazons great text stats feature, the median length for all books is about 64,000 words. For average word counts based on genre, see this handy reference. Harry potter and the order of the phoenix 2007 imdb. Me before you jojo moyes 140,000 words very unusual length for womens fiction this one, but it was a very unusual book. Progressive word count in harry potter series the writer.
Why ccl bond length is shorter in vinyl chloride than in ethyl chloride. Word counts of the most popular books in the world foster grant uk. Harry potter word count the sorcerers stone 77,741 the chamber of secrets 85,735 the prisoner of azkaban 108,888 the goblet of fire 191,836 the order of the phoenix 261,906 the half blood prince 173,106 the deathly hallows 200,302. Watch harry potter parody porn videos for free, here on. Only 2 of the 7 harry potter books came in at under 100,000 words sorcerers stones and chamber of secrets which happened to be the first two books in the series. An ebook could be 3,000 words or as long as a full length book. It follows harry potter s struggles through his fifth year at hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry, including the surreptitious return of the antagonist lord voldemort, o.
The storytellers secret sejal bedani 110,000 words. Every category will have an average length, including childrens books, young adult, business books, etc. I like to think the books matured and got longer as we aged with harry. Write the report while reading the book so you dont forget to include any important details.
Harry potter and the order of the phoenix book 5 rowling, j. A rough guideline to start with would be 500010,000 words per book. Word count for famous novels organized commonplace book. For a huge harry potter book, try reading between 100150 pages a day. Using your current word count and the appropriate formula below, calculate the number of pages you can expect in your finished book. These are very short little books, great for the beginner reader that gets discouraged easily. With daniel radcliffe, emma watson, rupert grint, brendan gleeson. There are plenty of books that purposefully play with the word.
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. Harry potter and the chamber of secrets 85,141 words. Puzzles are in size 20 font, so that you will never suffer from eyestrain while doing them. Estimate your page count book designer linda parke. The cloak is first used in harry potter and the philosophers stone, chapter 12. Students raise their wands after albus dumbledore s death in 1997 this is a list of deaths in the harry potter series organised by source. How many pages are each of the harry potter books answers. Harry potter and the sorcerers stone is about 77,500 words total. Situational comedies, a harry potter fanfic fanfiction. Books for 7 to 9yearold readers would probably start at the 15,000 word mark, rarely going higher than 30,000 words. Depending on the variant that youre reading i believe that the page numbers differ between countries so im using the copies that i have to hand. Ernest hemingways the sun also rises, for instance, is 67,707 words, and its penguin classics paperback edition is a relatively slight 5. Harry potter and the order of the phoenix, more than any of the four previous novels in the series, is a comingofage story.
Harry potter and the order of the phoenix wikipedia. Jk rowlings longest novel is harry potter and the order of the phoenix. Harry potter and the chamber of secrets 85 141 words. Goodreads allows fanfiction if they are completed, selfpublished, and book length. Obviously, this series isnt going to stop growing for quite some time, it seems. I built one logos word list like this for every single book of the bible. Though the average word count of a chapter is around 2,000 5,000 words, it all depends on your story. Harry had just gone along with it because he had just come to terms with his sexuality, seamus was desperate after dean had started dating some ravenclaw girl, and harry hadnt known any other guy in the school who leaned the same way as him that he was comfortable enough with to date. Based on this list compiled by nicole humphrey cook. However, i understand that the length of twilight is unusually long for a debut novel. Find out how long your favourite books are and how they compare to their. There are 85,141 words in harry potter and the chamber of secrets. Harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban 107,253 words. Harry potter and the order of the phoenix is a fantasy novel written by british author j.
The latter tend to have larger, and therefore fewer, pages. Harry potter and the order of the phoenix 257,045 words. Some will tell you 2,500 words is the average, while others will say that 3,000 to 5,000 word chapters are more likely to be the norm. Goblet of fire opens with a bunch of murders, which shows us right off the bat that j. What is the order of shortest to the longest books of. Harry potter and the goblet of fire summary shmoop. Before the publication of the seventh and final harry potter book, we asked avid harry potter fans to tell the entire story of the six books so far in 100 words or fewer. Discover the growing collection of high quality most relevant xxx movies and clips.
Bbc news entertainment your potter stories in 100 words. Calculate book page count using word count for book design. Each of the little books not only uses a different word family, but also offers one or two new sight words. Harry potter and the philosophers stone 23 june, 199120 june, 1992 date at the start of chapter. Harry potter and the philosophers stone 76 944 words. The book with the least total number of words is sorcerers stones, while the book with the most words is order of the phoenix.
When i was a kid, books tended to have about seventy thousand words, and a table of contents that filled one page, so figure about 45k. What motivates him is power and greed and he is willing to go to any lengths to. In addition to wearing halfmoon glasses and giving off an impression of great energy, harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban. Only one book order of the phoenix topped 200,000 words. The figure was found through looking at a number of books text stats, until brave new worlds 64,531 word count landed in the exact center of all books 50% of books have fewer words and 50% of books have more words. As you can see, books two through five get progressively longer. Such books will have a minimum length of 75,000 words but seldom exceed 110,000. The order of the harry potter book series from shortest to. How many words are there in the harry potter book series.
You can use comparable, successful books as models to determine the length you book should be. Order of the phoenix is 14 of the total, just a tad short of the first three books word counts combined. That left me with 66 logos word lists, each giving me every originallanguage word in a given book of the bible. There are 76,944 words in harry potter and the sorcerers stone. The first two harry potter books are about 300400 pages, so try reading 50100 pages per day. List of chapter titles and respective inuniverse time of occurrence in the harry potter book series. Harry potter and the philosophers stone 76,944 words. The great gatsby, and slaughterhousefive are between 4050,000 words. Harry potter uses the invisibility cloak in all of the harry potter books.
How many pages do the lord of the rings books have. Your potter stories in 100 words author jk rowling will end the series with the deathly hallows. Fifty years prior, the town of little hangleton was shaken by the killing of the entire riddle family. Refer to the manual, or the goodreads librarians group.
Harry potter and the deathly hallows, the only book with officially 2 parts. Only one book order of the phoenix topped 200,000 words, but there were two books that came close with more than 190,000 words goblet of fire and deathly hallows. I do not own harry potter, or any of its characters. But, lets compare the first three books of the harry potter series to the hunger games trilogy. Viceversa, if your book is short, a smaller trim size can make it physically seem more substantial. As a general guideline, chapters should be between 3,000 to 5,000 words. All of the best novel length harry potter fanfiction stories. Of course, the whole harry potter series has more words because it has four more books.
In fact, the majority of printed books are turned into ebooks. Harry potter and the deathly hallows approximately 198,227, the scholastic count has yet to be announced. Middle grade novels vary a lot, but a safe spot to aim for would be 30,000 words. Harrys friends bravely agree to practice defensive spells to help him ward off voldemort and his evil cohorts. Browse through our impressive selection of porn videos in hd quality on any device you own. There are 190,637 words in harry potter and the goblet. More to the point, any class requiring students to read the series before registering is setting a million word pointofentry. How many pages are there in all the harry potter books. No other sex tube is more popular and features more harry potter parody scenes than pornhub. The total for the first three harry potter books is 269,338 words. The length of the book increases with the number of book in the series. Or are you a visually impaired reader who prefers largeprint editions. A word count example to live by for firsttime authors. The ultimate measure of a storys size is its wordcount, however, so the literary.
Id think that the right length for a chapter would be one that could be read at a sitting conveniently, and would provide a useful chunk of story. List of chapters in the harry potter novels harry potter. Well, youll put the book down when you get to the end of this chapter, you reason. How the harry potter characters looked in the books vs. Also, heres another list i may swipe and add in here. Harry potter and the philosophers stone was published on june 26, 1997, by bloomsbury in the united kingdom. Most agree that under 1,000 words would be rather short and that over 5,000 might be rather too long. The length of her harry potter books increased with her fame. Word count for famous novels, in ascending order by number of words.
This article covers a subject that is part of the real world, and thus should not be taken as a part of the harry potter universe. So the length of these affects the pacing of your story, and the way the reader experiences it. Discover the sweet spot for your chapters word count in this post. Word count signals to people what kind of book theyre dealing with. There are plenty of books that purposefully play with the word counts of their chapters. With their warning about lord voldemorts ralph fiennes return scoffed at, harry daniel radcliffe and dumbledore sir michael gambon are targeted by the wizard authorities as an authoritarian bureaucrat slowly seizes power at hogwarts. Now in his fifth year at hogwarts, harry potter sat at his desk, next to ron weasley as their potions teacher, professor snape gave another boring lecture. As with everything else when it comes to writing a book, these are only guidelinesnot rules. Rowling and the fifth novel in the harry potter series. Harry potter and the order of the phoenix is the longest book in the series. This is a list of the novels over 500,000 words published through a mainstream publisher. It had been seamus that initialized the relationship in the first place. In particular, ron and hermione refuse to let harry. There are 107,253 words in harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban.
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