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. Those 1,084,170 words take up 6,095 pages.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire has 190,637 words. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has 168,923 words. The last book Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows has 198,227 words. This brings the total Harry Potter word count to a whooping 1,084,170 words.
The first book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, has 76,944 words. It has fewer words than the other six books, making it the shortest book in the series.
The fourth novel, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, was published 8 July 2000, simultaneously by Bloomsbury and Scholastic. The fifth novel, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, is the longest book in the series, yet it is the second-shortest film at 2 hours 18 minutes.
The first book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, has 76,944 words. It has fewer words than the other six books, making it the shortest book in the series. Since this was the first book, Rowling had more time to edit the book and make the writing more concise.
The biggest and longest Harry Potter book is Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. This book has 766 pages. The other six books in the series are all under 650 pages.
When Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone first released, it was a quick-read novel at just over 200 pages. As the popularity of the series grew, so did the page counts. The plots grew darker, the subplots more intricate, and at least from this editor's perspective, the characters started to repeat themselves.
Also, it would take 72 hours to read the entire Harry Potter series, which has a word count of 1,073,288 words. Authors have thrilled us with astounding reads, and many of these have stood the test of time.
At 21,450 Pages, the Longest Book in the World Is Impossible to Read. Artist Ilan Manouach bound together 21,450 pages of the popular Japanese comic “One Piece” to create a sculpture that comments on the commodification of comic books.
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.
At a writers conference I recently attended, publishing veteran Jane Friedman said 80,000 words is good for most fiction, below 60,000 isn't novel length territory, and above 120,000 is likely too much.
J.K. Rowling's best-selling novel is Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, and has sold over 120 million copies. It was the first book in the Harry Potter series.
Harry Potter came in first, with 85% of respondents saying they admired him. He was then followed by Hermione Granger with 78%, Albus Dumbledore with 76%, Ron Weasley with 72% and Rubeus Hagrid with 62%.
Can Jackson legitimize his second trilogy with The Hobbit's much slender 95,022 word count? Even with the extra pages from Tolkien, it's hard to imagine.
The average reader will read 60,000 words in 3.3 hours when reading at a speed of 300 words per minute (wpm). Typical documents that are 60,000 words or more include full-length novels.
The first book in the series requires a reading level of 880L, which makes it an appropriate read for most 2nd and 3rd graders. With a total of 223 pages and an acceptable story complexity, it should not be too challenging.
In 2007, Ann Jones read all 199,797 words of the final Harry Potter instalment in 47 minutes. That's 4,251 words per minute. It would take an average reader 11 uninterrupted hours to read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The 1990 Guinness World Record book recognised Howard Berg as the fastest reader in the world.
It's been 10 years since J.K. Rowling finished writing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. On 11 January 2007 the author stepped out of Edinburgh's Balmoral hotel having completed the last novel in the Harry Potter series — the culmination of 17 years of writing.
It's generally been obvious why Rowling keeps adding new twists to the Harry Potter canon: it's an effort on her part to make the franchise more inclusive, when it comes to race and sexuality in particular.
The value of a Harry Potter copy depends on the state of the copy, the edition and the printing, the country where it was printed, if it is signed (sometimes they are signed by the illustrators), if the copy is hardcover or softcover, and if it is scarce or it has any particularity that makes it especial.
The third movie in the series and the only one not to feature Voldemort, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is (undeservedly) the lowest-earning movie out of the series.
The novel with a laminated board cover is one of only 500 first-edition first impressions to exist and its sale attracted international interest. A rare hardback copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone has been sold for £10,500 at an auction - having been purchased for only 30p.
Although all of them are great, arguably the best Harry Potter book is the sixth in the series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. By this point in the story, Harry has already come to terms with his fate, and he and the rest of the wizarding world are bracing themselves for the impending war.