Random Post 14 - Approximate Word Counts

Intro

Hi everyone! I've been very busy and haven't been blogging very much recently and I do apologize for that.

So, a couple of people who visited me recently were freaking out over my mini library at home and freaked out even more when I told them there are a lot more books in my cupboards and wayyyyy more in my Kindle since that's a much cheaper option for one so broke as I am who also has very little space to keep books (yes, there are books lying around EVERYWHERE in the apartment, not even restricted to just my room).

As per usual, I was asked the popular question: HAVE YOU REALLY READ EVERYTHING HERE AND IF YES HOW JUST HOW

Honest to the gods, guys, I've read every book I own physical copies of at least twice because who leaves an unread book lying around? More on point, HOW do you resist reading and re-reading and can leave it untouched? Something calls out and the pages scream at you until the words are scanned by your eyes and eaten up by your mind, doesn't it? The pages whine and cry until it tears your soul apart and you can't help but caress the pages gently, breathe in it's natural odour and read everything as if you've never read anything else before it...or at least that's how it works with me, anyway.

So anyway, a very close friend suddenly wondered how many words I've managed to read so far and I know it's impossible to count but I was suddenly very curious because I remember telling him exactly how long it takes to watch all of Doctor Who and explaining to him that it's impossible to have the time to fall in love with the show ASAP if you wanna start right at the beginning from 23rd November, 1963.

So I Googled the Harry Potter word count because that's the series I've re read the most (Potter generation, check, gateway fandom check, at least one re-read session every year if not more times, check!) and saw the count. He then wondered about the LotR count, I then compared the two and looked up a few more and so on and so forth.

SO, in order to keep track and assemble some sort of list for all you people who have these random urges like I do, I'm bored and intrigued enough to start making a list, or a sort of compilation of word counts and books that I've read. I'm not going to try putting all of them in, obviously, but I'll attempt to add books to the list sometimes if I remember them or feel like adding to this list. I shall only add things I've definitely read, of course :D

So, here it goes (credit to the internet and all you fabulous counters and fellow bibliophiles out there for the following data, thank you all for being so awesome!):

THE SORT OF LIST AND COUNTS:

Harry Potter Books by J.K. Rowling

Philosopher’s Stone – 76,944

Chamber of Secrets – 85,141

Prisoner of Azkaban – 107,253

Goblet of Fire – 190,637

Order of the Phoenix – 257,154

Half Blood Prince – 169,441

Deathly Hallows – 198,227

Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Lord of the Rings – An e-copy shows 525,405

The Hobbit – 95K

The Fellowship of the Ring: 187k

The Two Towers – 155K

The Return of the King – 136K

Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan

The Eye of the World: 305k

The Great Hunt: 267k

The Dragon Reborn: 251k

The Shadow Rising: 393k

The Fires of Heaven: 354k

Lord of Chaos: 389k

A Crown of Swords: 295k

The Path of Daggers: 226k

Winter's Heart: 238k

Crossroads of Twilight: 271k

Knife of Dreams: 315k

Total: 3M 304k (official count)

A Song of Ice And Fire by George R. R. Martin

A Game of Thrones: 298k

A Clash of kings: 326k

A Storm of Swords: 424k

A Feast for Crows: 300k

A Dance with Dragons: 422K

The Hunger Games (trilogy) by Suzanne Collins – 302,000

His Dark Materials (trilogy) by Philip Pullman – 329,000

Others:

36,363 – Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis

30, 644 - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

59,635 – Black Beauty – Anna Sewell

59,900 – Lord of the Flies – William Golding

63,604 – The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne

63,766 – Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

80,398 – The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett

88,942 – Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell

107,945 – Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte

109,571 – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain

29,000 - Animal Farm - George Orwell

186,418 – Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden

63,422 – Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf

67,203 – The Fault in Our Stars – John Green

69,066 – The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain

78,462 – The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde

82,762 – Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank

87,978 – Persuasion – Jane Austen

122, 685 - Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

119,394 – Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen

155,887 – Emma – Jane Austen

100,388 – To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee (count confirmed)

100,609 – Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card

107,349 – Gullivers Travels – Jonathan Swift

183,858 – Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte

240,000 - The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova

27,000 - The Old Man and the Sea 

114,779 – The Tenth Circle – Jodi Picoult

138,138 – 20000 Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne

166,622 – Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe

183,833 – Little Women (Books 1&2) – Louisa May Alcott

418,053 – Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell

339,000 - David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

28,944 - A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

135,420 – A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens

155,960 – Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens

183,349 – Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

530, 982 - Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

80,055- Paradise Lost by John Milton