Lloyd Lofthouse

I’ve wasted hours upon hours looking up word counts. Finally, I made a list. I want to share what I’ve found so that you won’t waste time looking yourself. Here are the numbers on highly-praised literary fiction, fantasy and science fiction. Now you won’t need to scour the web to find them again.

Literary Fiction

• The Old Man and the Sea 27,000
• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens – 28,000
• Animal Farm by George Orwell – 29,000
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck – 30,000
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald – 47,000
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut – 49,000
• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe – 50,000
• The Bluest Eyes by Toni Morrison – 52,000
• Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck – 55,000
• As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner – 57,000
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy – 59,000
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding – 60,000
• Their…