10,000 - 30,000 words

• Macbeth - William Shakespeare | 17,084 words
• The Enchanter - Vladimir Nabokov | 17,575 words
• Satori in Paris - Jack Kerouac | 19,980 words
• I Am Legend - Richard Matheson | 25,204 words
• Breakfast at Tiffany’s - Truman Capote | 26,433 words
• The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway | 26,601 words
• Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson | 27,622 words
• Death in Venice - Thomas Mann | 28,770 words
• A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens | 28,944 words
• Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck | 29,160 words
• Animal Farm - George Orwell | 29,966 words

30,000 - 50,000 words

• Hamlet - William Shakespeare | 30,066 words
• The Giver - Lois Lowry | 43,617 words
• Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury | 46,118 words
• Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson | 46,591 words
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams | 46,333 words
• The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald | 47,094 words
• Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut | 49,459 words
• Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk | 49,962 words

50,000+ words

• The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane | 50,776 words
• The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks | 52,000 words
• The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame | 58,428 words
• Lord of the Flies - William Golding | 62,481 words