3/31/2024 0 Comments Famous books by word count![]() Towards the bottom, I also checked the (ongoing) epic fantasy series, A Song of Ice and Fire and the original Lord of the Rings trilogy. He had helpful directions to the AR BookFinder website, which (among other things, such as quizzes and ratings) helpfully has the word counts of hundreds of books.īelow are several different YA series, their word counts per book and total word counts for the entire series. In the quest for word counts, I stumbled onto this post by Andrew Winkel, first published in 2013. This post unlocks the word counts of some popular YA series. Even more frustrating is the conflicting information from online sources – if you really want your novel to ‘fit’ within the genre, it’s helpful to know the ‘proper’ length of the competition. There are various methods you can try, but even companies like Amazon only offer the page count (which varies by edition). Unfortunately, word counts aren’t easy to find. ![]() Writing towards a word count might not work for everybody, but having a rough goal in mind certainly helps me when I’m sketching out chapters and undertaking my first draft. ![]() As I started drafting my new WIP – a YA sci-fi thriller – I began wondering what word count I should aim for. ![]()
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