If youve read our related article on how many words are in a novel youll recall that the typical word count for a novel according to is 80,000 to 109,000 words. Armed with these word counts, i now have a range of lengths that have been proven popular. Also, heres another list i may swipe and add in here. As you can see, established authors get much more flexibility when it comes to the length of their book. A new exhibition at the british library in london reveals how author j. Harry potter text analysis becoming a data analyst medium. Word count for the book harry potter and the sorcerers stone. Heres a look at wordcount over time by the individual book. For more ya examples, including more dystopias, check out this list on brett orrs site. A statistical analysis of robert jordans the wheel of. Harry potter and the halfblood prince is the sixth book in the harry potter series.
Progressive word count in harry potter series the writer. Harry potter harry potter glossary harry potter books. The hunger games uses 3,700word chapters, dividing each chapter into three parts. Harry potter is a series of fantasy books composed by british writer jk rowling. Not counting the epilogue, the shortest chapter is book 3. This averages to about 22 to 23 chapters per novel, with the average chapter length around 4,280 words. Lets look at some chapter lengths, but remember that these are averages. In the world of harry potter, wands are what makes magic happen. Wizarding currency is the currency used by the wizarding world. The first book in the series, harry potter and the philosophers stone, was first published by bloomsbury in 1997, with an initial printrun of 500 copies in hardback, 300 of which were distributed to libraries. Famous book series and novel word counts number of words. Instead, its the rehearsal script of a play that explores how harrys adult life unfolds. Most spells are cast with the aid of wands, but spells can be cast without the use of wands.
If a virtual private party is more your thing, go here for details. In any of these books, some chapters are longer than others. Harry potter and the deathly hallows, book 7 audiobook by j. The harry potter books are popular, and once someone reads the first book in the series, they often end up reading the entire series. Put in the letters that you have into the filter box. I have rounded the averages down slightly, both to account for twilights outlier status and my own preference for brevity. Of course, when youre writing the first draft of your story, you want to just get your words out on paper. His parents are dead and hes stuck with his heartless relatives, who force him to live in a tiny closet under the stairs. Word counts of the most popular books in the world foster grant uk. Word count for novels and books is something i dont think about too often until i travel to a writers conference, and then someone asks a simple, innocent question. Hi, i have just written a threehundred page novel and am going to be sending it away to several publishers but the one i most have the chance to get it with have told me it needs to be the pagesize of a harry potter book and i was wondering if anybody knew the pagesizemargins etc. The harry potter books are young adult titles, and ya publishers generally look for manuscripts in the 50,000 to 80,000word range. A guide to all the different magic wands in harry potter. Statistics on harry potter chapter length science fiction.
The median book length for the full series is represented by the dotted line. Title pages uk edition harry potter and the philosophers stone 223 pages harry potter and the chamber of secrets 251 pages harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban 317 pages harry potter and the goblet of fire 636 pages harry potter. Movie length in adapted franchises we crunched the numbers on novel length vs. How many words per chapter are in a harry potter novel. I thought this progression of word counts for the rowling series was interesting. Harry potter and the goblet of fire was published on 8 july 2000 at the same time by bloomsbury and scholastic. This will help determine what kind of length readers expect in popular novels, and also will give me a word count goal for writing the scenes and assignments.
Martin and harper lee keep things more evenly paced in a game of thrones and to kill a mockingbird, respectively. How many words are there in all harry potter books. With that in mind, ive tried to put together the definitive post on word count for fiction novels, young adult, middle grade, childrens books and even memoir. Millions of copies have been sold in multiple countries and the books have been translated into many different languages. Apr 05, 2015 grammatical and structural analysis of harry potter and the sorcerers stone 1st page posted on april 5, 2015 by mila jk rowling starts her childrens book with the name of two people, not ideas, as children are more cognizant of the people around them, and cant think about ideas nouns of ideas. More to the point, any class requiring students to read the series before registering is setting a million word pointofentry. Harry potter and the deathly hallows is a fantastic end to the series. Harry potter and the philosophers stone 76,944 words harry potter and the chamber of secrets 85,141 words harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban. Harry potter and the chamber of secrets 85,141 words. Word counts of famous book series harry potter by jk rowling. Everything you need to know about novel word counts.
What is the order of shortest to the longest books of. I knew that this would be different from the movie again, having never readlistened to all of the books until now, but i had no clue how in the dark i was from just seeing the movies. List of chapters in the harry potter novels harry potter. Jun 26, 2017 twenty years ago today, the world was introduced to harry potter and a book series destined to be the bestselling of all time.
Word count signals to people what kind of book theyre dealing with. The hunger games is more of a ya dystopia than a ya fantasy but i included it for interests sake. Apr 23, 2018 this post covers why word count matters for novels, the standard word count ranges for various genres, and the word counts of some famous novels. The harry potter books contain 1,084,170 words order of the phoenix is 14 of the total, just a tad short of the first three books word counts combined. Below youll find the total word count numbers for each book in the. The book, harry potter and the philosophers stone, was relegated to a lowpriority bookshelf, where it was discovered by a secretary who read it and gave it to heyman with a positive. Test your knowledge of the harry potter series with our set of impossibly difficult trivia questions.
All this takes a long time to explain, but its more than worth it. The order of the harry potter book series from shortest to longest is. 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. Progressive word count in harry potter series the writers beat. Since 2011, the average length of a bestseller has dropped steadily from year to year. Thats a good 7,000 words higher than your suggestion for ya, and its actually classified as mg, which should theoretically be even shorter than ya. Harry potter and the philosophers stone 76,944 words. Word count for famous novels organized commonplace book. Lball2s interactive graph and data of chapter lengths in harry potter and sorcerers stone is a bar chart, showing col2. Jul 29, 2016 word to the wise or erstwhile potter fans. A spectacular finish to a phenomenal series, harry potter and the deathly hallows is a bittersweet read for fans. Please select the proper categories for the phrase. 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 million copies worldwide within 24 hours.
What isnt often considered is the sheer number of words a person who reads the entire series consumes. As garrick ollivander, the famous wandmaker, told harry at the beginning of harry potter and the sorcerers stone. The longest chapter is book 5, chapter detention with dolores at 9,001 words. Harry potter and the sorcerers stone has an average of 4,560 words per chapter. List of chapter titles and respective inuniverse time of occurrence in the harry potter book. You can see there is a lot of variation in word length, especially in epic high fantasy, where books can stretch beyond 200,000 words or sink as low as 50,000. Harry potter and the sorcerers stone is about 77,500 words total. Word counts of the most popular books in the world. The word counts of each hp book harrypotter reddit. Here is everything writers need to know about novel word counts. Loved by fans around the world, the series has sold more than 500 million copies, been translated into 80 languages and made into eight blockbuster films.
Jul 22, 2016 the harry potter series has 1,086,621 total words throughout 7 books. Jun 27, 2019 similarly, if your book is published and lands in a bookstore, you dont want to turn away prospective readers with a bizarrely small or large book spine. Please help the harry potter wiki by adding notes andor references to bring this article to a higher standard of quality. Grammatical and structural analysis of harry potter and the sorcerers stone 1st page posted on april 5, 2015 by mila jk rowling starts her childrens book with the name of two people, not ideas, as children are more cognizant of the people around them, and cant think about ideas nouns of ideas. The average chapter word count of these novels falls within the 2,0005,000 range. Jun 26, 1997 harry potter and the philosophers stone is a fantasy novel written by british author j. Biggest plot holes in harry potter business insider. The hunger games has a word count of 99,750 and my utility calculates it at 99,060. 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. And as you can see, it varies, depending on the story.
This technique can simply bring the scene to a close, or it can be a way to summarize. I always thought that the goblet of fire held the largest word count, its the thickest book. Show students the book harry potter and the philosophers stone and give them the opportunity to share anything they already know about the book or its author. Harry potter and the cursed child is not a new book. Click to enlarge image created by the company cartridge discount, this informative infographic catalogs the word counts of famous and popular. Harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban 107,253 words. The books have also launched the infamous movie series. Then in the fifth book harry potter and the order of the phoenix. Since harry potter book 1 first publication, harry potter and the philosophers stone, on 26 june 1997, the novels have discovered tremendous popularity, critical acclaim, and business success worldwide. 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. By far the longest, it has more emotional scenes, more epic battles and more characters who each have their own story to tell. In this article, were going to look at how many words are in the harry potter series.
Over three times the lenght of the book that made her bones for her. David foster wallace was already a name before infinite jest. Bestselling books show us what the public likes, and of course, were hoping that our own novels will be liked by the public. Jul 12, 2007 here are the number of pages in the harry potter books listed. Grammatical and structural analysis of harry potter and the. Most incredibly long and incredibly short books are not debuts. 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. All the wands featured in the harry potter series mental floss. Therefore, the word count of a novel is crucial if you want your book to be fit for publication. Oct 18, 2017 looking back on past events is another common way to end a chapter. Word count for famous novels, in ascending order by number of words. When added all together, the harry potter books contain 1,084,170 words.
Play sporcle s virtual live trivia to have fun, connect with people, and get your trivia on. We are also going to look at how harry potter is comparable to other young adult novels in regards to word count. Readers looking for a good beachread in the mystery section will not likely gravitate towards a 1,000page book. The eight harry potter books have an impressive combined word count of over 1 million words. The first book harry potter and the sorcerers stone has 76,944 words. Late in 1997, film producer david heymans london offices received a copy of the first book in what would become rowlings series of seven harry potter novels. How many pages are there in all the harry potter books. The actual word count for harry potter and the sorcerers stone is 78,792 and my utility calculates 78,186. The wizarding currency of great britain consists of three different coins. In the exposition of harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban, j. Regarding the value of adhering to standard word counts, jackie bates, a former managing editor at aa publishing, adds.
As persuasion progresses, jane austen seems to elongate hers, building them up on a crescendo. Harry potter series 7 primary works 16 total works orphan harry learns he is a wizard on his 11th birthday when hagrid escorts him to magicteaching hogwarts school. In 2011, the lists average length peaked at 467 pages. For some perspective, harry potter and the sorcerers stone was around. Like everything in writing, you may write a work of genius that smashes all the rules. Harry potter and the philosophers stone is a fantasy novel written by british author j. I havent calculated the number of unique words in the whole series, but i know hp 5 the longest book has 12,624 unique words. Rowling is the author of the recordbreaking, multiawardwinning harry potter novels. Your guide to book word counts fiction and nonfiction.
Of course, you could have the new harry potter but that wont do you much good if no one is interested in looking at it. How many words are there in the harry potter book series. There are no hardandfast rules when it comes to what word count a novel in. The journey is hard, filled with events both tragic and triumphant, the battlefield littered with the bodies of the dearest and despised, but the final chapter is as brilliant and blinding as a phoenixs flame, and fans and skeptics. Harry potter and the philosophers stone 76944 harry potter and the chamber of secrets 85141 harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban 107253 harry. Harry potter is a britishamerican film series based on the eponymous novels by author j. Varies according to the book order of the phoenix is by far the. For average word counts based on genre, see this handy reference.
When combined, the total harry potter word count is over a million words. A wand is a quasisentient magical instrument through which a witch or wizard channels her or his magical powers to centralise the effects for more complex results. Oct 23, 2017 21 insanely difficult harry potter trivia questions even diehard fans have trouble with. It was published worldwide in english on 21 june 2003. 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. Everything you need to know about novel word counts nathan. But for print publishing, the physical cost of producing the book is an issue, and the market does generally know what it likes. Chapter lengths in harry potter and sorcerers stone bar. I think that i am almost the largest harry potter fan in illinois for goodness sake, and yet i do not feel to have sinned. But what was it about the skinny, bespectacled 11yearold with a. It is the first novel in the harry potter series and rowlings debut novel, first published in 1997 by bloomsbury.
Rowling relied on the real history of magic and alchemy to create her wizarding world in harry potter. 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. What is the runtime of the unabridged audio books of harry. I think that harry potter is just some made up book, that is a great series of books, but the bible, i must say is the best book around. Read all game of thrones books online for free, read with your mobile, tablet or desktop. Harry potter and the order of the phoenix is the fifth book in the exciting harry potter series. Time book critic lev grossman grabs an early copy of deathly hallows and finds it a sad but satisfying wrapup to j. Word count for famous novels organized by hawthorn mineart, under books, writing. Rowling are among the most popular book series of all times among people of all ages. Word2vec on harry potter becoming a data analyst medium. Join a live hosted trivia game for your favorite pub trivia experience done virtually.
Harry potter and the chamber of secrets has 85,141 words. Learn the definitions of all of the wizarding words in the harry potter books with this glossary of common words. A statistical analysis of robert jordans the wheel of time. But the word count of a chapter matters if you want your story to flow right. A nicely graphed distribution would be nice, but ill accept an answer that has something equivalent to the average, standard deviation, and quartiles. The first book in each series below was the authors first. The harry potter books are young adult titles, and ya publishers generally look for manuscripts in the 50,000 to 80,000 word range. Just thought id point out that even though the first harry potter book is shorter than the others, it still clocks in at 77,000 words. Below is the order of all of the harry potter books, as well as recommendations for other books like harry potter.
It was published in the united states as harry potter and the sorcerers stone by scholastic corporation in 1998. Title pages uk edition harry potter and the philosophers stone 223 pages harry potter and the chamber of secrets 251 pages harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban 317 pages harry potter and the goblet of fire 636 pages harry potter and the. Search for word count totals in books word counters. Its what lets wizards and witches cast spells, and it can form an attachment with a person over their lives. Which means, yes, that harry potter is three times the length of the narniad. Harry is of course the young wizard featured in numerous incredibly famous books written by author jk rowling. Im looking for some statistics on typical harry potter chapter word count. Here are the number of pages in the harry potter books listed. Wizards are not averse to using currency with convoluted denominations, because they are easily able to solve complex calculations with magic. Wandless magic is, however, very difficult and requires much concentration and incredible skill. Even more nowadays harry potter pdf book series also get. The book with the least total number of words is sorcerers stones, while the book with the most words is order of the phoenix. Grammatical and structural analysis of harry potter and.
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