It was published worldwide in english on 21 june 2003. How many words are in harry potter and the philosophers. The harry potter books are young adult titles, and ya publishers generally look for manuscripts in the 50,000 to 80,000word range. His parents are dead and hes stuck with his heartless relatives, who force him to live in a tiny closet under the stairs. Hunger games remained relatively flat around 100k, while the maze runner novels became shorter. The word count figures for the other six books, in order. Others have made the apt comparison that compared to chamber or philosopher, azkaban definitely treats the characters and subject matter with much more gravitas and importance. Here are the number of words in the harry potter novels and comparisons with the word counts of other wellknown works. Novels are arguably the most wellknown of all four categories. Each book in the series has a different word count, ranging from 76,944 harry potter and the sorcerers stone to 257,045 harry potter and the order of the phoenix. The fifth book in the series is also by far its longest, more than three times as long as philosophers stone. Black gate articles harry potter and the tyranny of word. Word count for the book harry potter and the sorcerers.
How many words are there in the harry potter book word. A novel is, in short, a lengthy piece of literary work. 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. Before the popularity of ereaders like the kindle that was. To be honest, i was really expecting the link would act like a search engine and tell you the word count of a specified book.
Obviously, the examples under each category are above and below what is generally accepted. May 11, 2020 harry potter book 1 word count may 11, 2020 harry potter wiki fandom how many pages is 300 words word harry potter and the half blood prince a statistical ysis of robert jordan a statistical ysis of robert jordan. We are also going to look at how harry potter is comparable to other young adult novels in regards to word count. Harry potter and the chamber of secrets 85,141 words harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban 107,253 words harry potter and the goblet of fire 190,637 words harry potter and the order of the phoenix 257,045 words harry potter and the halfblood prince 168,923 harry potter and the deathly hallows approximately 198,227. What isnt often considered is the sheer number of words a person who reads the entire series consumes. In this article, were going to look at how many words are in the harry potter series. Harry potter and the chamber of secrets 85,141 words. Can you pick the harry potter books by word count in order from fewest to most. Harry potter book 1 word count image collections book. Harry potter text analysis becoming a data analyst medium. Your indispensable morning factoid and invaluable followon information. Even with two books to go order of the phoenix would hold the record for the highest page count of any harry potter book ever, at over 700 pages total. Why does professor lupin give harry chocolate on the hogwarts express train. Feb 09, 2015 hunger games remained relatively flat around 100k, while the maze runner novels became shorter.
Whilst longer doesnt necessarily mean better, sometimes word count like the harry potter word count is important because theres just so much ground to cover. The length of the book increases with the number of book in the series. However, this does not necessarily mean it is more difficult to read. Jun 26, 2018 i have found the website dogobooks to be the most useful place to check the word count of popular books for kids. Harry potter and the halfblood prince has 168,923 words. Tolkiens initial novel, the hobbit, contained 95,022 words. Take a look at the word counts for each of the harry potter books the philosophers stone 76,944. The word count of a book is measured by the whole books word count, not individual chapters. The hobbit has more unique words and a higher unique word density than both the silmarillion and each volume in the lord of the rings. Harry potter and the deathly hallows, the only book with officially 2 parts. The first book is apparently 68,203 words long while my. Childrens chapter books word count age 69 word count. Test your knowledge on this literature quiz to see how you do and compare your score to others. Nicholas sparks word count the notebook 38,520 message in a bottle 92,760 a walk to remember 49,311 the rescue 100,916 a bend in the road 93,766.
Ok i admit it, i put the harry potter reference in the title as link bait. Thats like reading david foster wallacess infinite jest. For those who like to keep track of their reading word count or those who want to encourage their kids to read more the harry potter books series is an. Word count for famous novels, in ascending order by number of words. Comparing the three books is so useful for setting my own chapter lengths. I thought this progression of word counts for the rowling series was interesting. Well, in the context of harry potter, theres a whole lot of new vocabulary that you can pick up. But his fortune changes when he receives a letter that tells him the truth about himself. In order to create a playlist on sporcle, you need to verify the email address you used during registration.
Rowlings recordbreaking series began with two titles on the high end of that spectrum and finished with five that left the guidelines in the dust. However, i understand that the length of twilight is unusually long for a debut novel. When added all together, the harry potter books contain 1,084,170 words. I have found the website dogobooks to be the most useful place to check the word count of popular books for kids. Word count for famous novels organized commonplace book.
At an average reading rate of 125 words per minute, thats about 145 hours of reading. Word counts of the most popular books in the world foster grant uk. Rowlings writing style with the opening of the movie, harry potter and the deathy hallows, part 1, ive noticed a substantial increase in the number of people coming here to read a post i did last year about j. The word count range for each age level is only a guideline. If your spoon at breakfast weighed thity five pounds, you might.
By the fifth book, harry potter and the order of the phoenix, the word count had grown to 257,000 words. Harry potter and the halfblood prince was published on 16 july 2005. At a writers conference i recently attended, publishing veteran jane friedman said 80,000 words is good for most fiction, below 60,000 isnt novel length territory, and above 120,000 is likely too much. Harry potter and the goblet of fire was published on 8 july 2000 at the same time by bloomsbury and scholastic. What does harry see each time before he find himself in danger. Professor dumbledore has given them clues about what.
The eight harry potter books have an impressive combined word count of over 1 million words. The premise is that hermione kept a series of journals documenting her years at hogwarts, and sold these to a book publisher, who then forwarded them to jkr. I was actually recommended a news article about this very subject not long ago. When combined, the total harry potter word count is over a million words. What isn\t often considered is the sheer number of words a person who reads the entire series consumes. 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. Generate data frame with sentiment derived from the bing dictionary. The silmarillion and the lord of the rings both introduce many times more new concepts, characters and locations which makes them more complex. Rowling started with two books of relatively conventional length before she had the latitude to start busting word count limits in the harry potter series. There are seventeen chapters in the book and 223 pages uk edition. Her first two books in the harry potter series are on the long side for childrens fiction, but the word count is relatively normal from a publishers perspective. Do you remember the word count of the harry potter books.
The word count of 175 favorite novels broke by books. Harry potter and the philosophers sorcerers stone by j. Harry potter and the deathly hallows approximately 198,227. How many words are there in all harry potter books. The first book, harry potter and the sorcerers stone, has 76,944 words. The tales of beedle the bard, standard edition harry potter.
Progressive word count in harry potter series the writer. His parents are dead and hes stuck with his heartless relatives, who force. Jun 23, 2016 ok i admit it, i put the harry potter reference in the title as link bait. I suppose the best comparison would be one of the other potter books. Word count for the book harry potter and the sorcerers stone. Word count for the book harry potter and the deathly hallows. The harry potter books are popular, and once someone reads the first book in the series, they often end up reading the entire series. Nicholas sparks word count popular novel word count. Harry potter and the order of the phoenix 257,045 words. Harry potter wiki fandom how many pages is 300 words word harry potter and the half blood prince a statistical ysis of robert jordan a statistical ysis of robert jordan.
Harry potter and the philosophers stone 76944 harry potter and the chamber of secrets 85141 harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban 107253 harry. In an interview with harry potter fan site the leaky cauldron and mugglenet back in 2005, j. Harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban, book 3 audiobook. For example, if an author has to write a minimum or maximum amount of words for an article, essay, report, story, book, paper, you name it. For most publishers, a book is novellength when its between 50,000 and 110,000 words. Harry potter and the order of the phoenix is the longest book in the series, at 766 pages in the uk version and 870 pages in the us version. Harry potter and the chamber of secrets the harry potter. The word count gets progressively longer for books 1 to 5.
Harry potter and the sorcerers stone is about 77,500 words total. Word counts of famous book series harry potter by jk rowling. Coming in at about 300,000 words, it is a retelling of the last three books of the series. Your guide to book word counts fiction and nonfiction. How many words per chapter are in a harry potter novel.
But after the wild success of the early books, she was able to publish longer, more detailed books with word counts that easily veer into epic novel lengths. Word count for harry potter and the sorcerers stone. Everything you need to know about novel word counts nathan. It was released on 18 june, 2012, written by jon richards. Nov 25, 2008 harry potter and the chamber of secrets 85,141 words harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban 107,253 words harry potter and the goblet of fire 190,637 words harry potter and the order of the phoenix 257,045 words harry potter and the halfblood prince 168,923 harry potter and the deathly hallows approximately 198,227. It has fewer words than the other six books, making it the shortest book in the series. I think that the worst best story in here is the warlock. Harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban 107,253 words.
Popular novel word count the worlds largest word count encyclopedia. This brings the total harry potter word count to a whooping 1,084,170 words. Order of the phoenix is 14 of the total, just a tad short of the first three books word counts. The the fellowship of the ring, the first book of the lord of the rings series, swelled to 177,227 words. Notebooks and letters, originally posted on in 2007 and 2008, is the last of my three novellength harry potter fanfiction stories. Click to enlarge image created by the company cartridge discount, this informative infographic catalogs the word counts of famous and. David foster wallace was already a name before infinite jest. Wordcounter will help to make sure its word count reaches a specific requirement or stays within a certain limit. May 06, 2016 the seventh and final book in the harry potter series, harry potter and the deathly hallows was published in july 2007 and sold 11. Afterwards is a spoiler section with my take on the book. Word counts of philip pullmans his dark materials series. Apr 11, 2015 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.
The word count of the main 7 harry potter novels are shown below. Rowlings sevenbook harry potter series is 1,084,625. Harry potter and the philosophers stone 76,944 words. I read this and it is creepy so, one of the stories is from harry potter and the deathly hallows which i love and the others are mentioned throughout the harry potter series. As you can see, established authors get much more flexibility when it comes to the length of their book. The most popular harry potter book according to sales. Why word count matters when you submit your book the artful. Based on this list compiled by nicole humphrey cook. Harry potter and the philosophers stone 23 june, 199120 june, 1992 date at the start of chapter. Also, heres another list i may swipe and add in here.
The first book in each series below was the authors first. List of chapters in the harry potter novels harry potter. Famous book series and novel word counts count words and. What other book might you compare harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban, book 3 to, and why. List of chapter titles and respective inuniverse time of occurrence in the harry potter book series. The last book harry potter and the deathly hallows has 198,227 words. Jun 19, 2019 i was actually recommended a news article about this very subject not long ago. Below youll find the total word count numbers for each book in the. For average word counts based on genre, see this handy reference. Other types of fictional writing novellas and short stories are other types of fiction.
Progressive word count in harry potter series the writers beat. Words counts of bestselling novels better novel project. This charts trend looks similar to the word count chart. Quantity is not quality, of course, but dont make the mistake of neglecting that quantity is one quality and not an unimportant one. Its no longer safe for harry at hogwarts, so he and his best friends, ron and hermione, are on the run. Rowling herself admitted that harry potter and the order of the phoenix was overly long. Oct 17, 2018 her first two books in the harry potter series are on the long side for childrens fiction, but the word count is relatively normal from a publishers perspective. Why word count matters when you submit your book the. Characters of the magical world is a book chronicling the various lego forms of harry potter characters, carrying the tagline with every lego harry potter minifigure and creature. How many words are there in the harry potter book series. If readers were put off by the page length of harry potter and the goblet of fire, they were not likely to jump back on board when harry potter and the order of the phoenix was released.
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