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How long is a literary fiction novel?

The typical literary fiction novel here has 120,682 words, about 8 h 3 min of reading. 44 books, longest first.

120,682words

Typical length
8 h 3 minthe median of 44 books
Longest
War and Peace587,287 words
Shortest
The Metamorphosis22,011 words

The books, in order

  1. 1War and PeaceLeo Tolstoy587,287
  2. 2The Brothers KaramazovFyodor Dostoevsky364,153
  3. 3Bleak HouseCharles Dickens355,432
  4. 4Anna KareninaLeo Tolstoy349,736
  5. 5David CopperfieldCharles Dickens339,112
  6. 6MiddlemarchGeorge Eliot316,059
  7. 7A Little LifeHanya Yanagihara303,000
  8. 8The GoldfinchDonna Tartt296,582
  9. 9The IdiotFyodor Dostoevsky272,647
  10. 10UlyssesJames Joyce265,391
  11. 11Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoevsky211,591
  12. 12Moby-DickHerman Melville206,052
  13. 13The Secret HistoryDonna Tartt202,000
  14. 14Jane EyreCharlotte Brontë183,858
  15. 15Great ExpectationsCharles Dickens183,349
  16. 16The Grapes of WrathJohn Steinbeck169,481
  17. 17Mansfield ParkJane Austen159,381
  18. 18Oliver TwistCharles Dickens155,960
  19. 19EmmaJane Austen155,887
  20. 20A Tale of Two CitiesCharles Dickens135,420
  21. 21Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and TomorrowGabrielle Zevin134,000
  22. 22Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen121,970
  23. 23Sense and SensibilityJane Austen119,394
  24. 24Wuthering HeightsEmily Brontë107,945
  25. 25The Kite RunnerKhaled Hosseini107,052
  26. 26Life of PiYann Martel101,027
  27. 27To Kill a MockingbirdHarper Lee99,121
  28. 28Where the Crawdads SingDelia Owens98,689
  29. 29Never Let Me GoKazuo Ishiguro96,374
  30. 30BelovedToni Morrison95,418
  31. 31PersuasionJane Austen87,978
  32. 32Northanger AbbeyJane Austen77,157
  33. 33Normal PeopleSally Rooney75,000
  34. 34The Catcher in the RyeJ. D. Salinger73,404
  35. 35Agnes GreyAnne Brontë68,241
  36. 36The Sun Also RisesErnest Hemingway67,707
  37. 37Mrs DallowayVirginia Woolf63,422
  38. 38The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-TimeMark Haddon62,005
  39. 39Lord of the FliesWilliam Golding59,900
  40. 40The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald47,094
  41. 41Of Mice and MenJohn Steinbeck29,572
  42. 42A Christmas CarolCharles Dickens28,448
  43. 43The Old Man and the SeaErnest Hemingway26,560
  44. 44The MetamorphosisFranz Kafka22,011

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How many words is a typical literary fiction novel?

The median of the 44 literary fiction books here is 120,682 words, about 8 h 3 min at 250 words a minute.

What is the longest literary fiction book here?

War and Peace, with 587,287 words.

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