A la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust
Its title translates to Remembrance of Things Past (first translated into English as In Search of Lost Time) and contains nearly 1.3 million words with an estimated 9,609,000 characters.
Marienbad My Love by Mark Leach – 2.5 million words
The book reads like a summer blockbuster about the end of the world. A Christian filmmaker finds himself stuck on a deserted island he calls Marienbad with the woman he loves. Except, she doesn't know who he is.
Artamenes may be the longest book released in French, containing over 7,000 pages.
A limited edition single volume of the long-running manga One Piece is being billed as the longest book in existence. At 21,450 pages, it is physically impossible to read, making it less of a book and more of a sculpture.
Nothing is stopping you from publishing a 100-page novella; they can be highly successful. For example, Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome is 30,191 words, George Orwell's Animal Farm is 29,966 words, and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis is only 22,009 words.
Typical documents that are 500 pages or more include full-length novels. A typical single-spaced page is 500 words long. It will take approximately 833 minutes to read 500 pages. A 250,000 word count will create about 500 pages with single spacing or 1000 pages double-spaced when using normal 1-inch margins, 12 pt.
A 100,000-word book is about 400 pages. A 110,000-word book is about 440 pages.
130,000 words is 260 pages single-spaced or 520 pages double-spaced. Typical documents that are 130,000 words or more include full-length novels. It will take approximately 433 minutes to read 130,000 words.
700,000 words is 1400 pages single-spaced or 2800 pages double-spaced. Typical documents that are 700,000 words or more include full-length novels. It will take approximately 2,333 minutes to read 700,000 words.
A Feast for Crows – 300,000 words. A Dance with Dragons – 422,000 words.
120,000 words is 240 pages single-spaced or 480 pages double-spaced.
If you're writing your first novel, the general rule of thumb for novel writing is a word count in the 80,000 to 100,000 range. While anything over 40,000 words can fall into the novel category, 50,000 is considered the minimum novel length. Anything over 110,000 words is considered too long for a fiction novel.
1. “Baby Shoes” by Hemingway. This is 20th-century American author Ernest Hemingway's famous six-word story. You've probably heard of it.
Jesus Wept: "The Shortest, Short Story Ever Written and Published," Guinness World Records book… In a 2 worded sentence in a book in the New Testament portion of The Holy Bible, God Himself revealed both the Divinity and the Humanity of His only Son, Jesus Christ, with "Jesus wept."
A 500,000 word count will create about 1000 pages with single spacing or 2000 pages double-spaced when using normal 1-inch margins, 12 pt. Arial font, and a standard A4 (letter size) page size.
How long does it take to read a book with 500000 words? The average reader will read 500,000 words in 27.8 hours when reading at a speed of 300 words per minute (wpm). Typical documents that are 500,000 words or more include full-length novels.
600,000 words is 1200 pages single-spaced or 2400 pages double-spaced. Typical documents that are 600,000 words or more include full-length novels. It will take approximately 2,000 minutes to read 600,000 words.
1,000,000 words is 2000 pages single-spaced or 4000 pages double-spaced.
Visualizing one million
Information: Not counting spaces, the text printed on 136 pages of an Encyclopædia Britannica, or 600 pages of pulp paperback fiction contains approximately one million characters.
The last book in the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, is 157.63% longer than the first book. In total, all seven Harry Potter books contain 1,084,170 words.
30,000 words are enough for a novella but would be considered too short for most fiction novels or a nonfiction book. As you can see, having the right number of words per page is important to its success.
In general, the Safe Zone for adult fiction is 70,000-100,000, and the Safe Zone for adult nonfiction is 60,000-90,000 words. Less than that and your book is probably too short. More than that and your book is probably too long.