David Copperfield by Charles Dickens – 339,000.The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow – 248,000.East of Eden by John Steinbeck – 225,000.The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon – 216,000.Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie – 209,000.Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson – 208,000.The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen – 197,000.Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides – 195,000.Great Expectations by Charles Dickens – 183,000.For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway – 174,000.We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates – 172,000.The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck – 169,000.Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens – 156,000.Light in August by William Faulkner – 151,000.The Human Stain by Philip Roth – 137,000.A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens – 135,000.The Plot Against America by Philip Roth – 130,000.One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey – 108,000.The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini – 107,000.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain – 106,000.

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini – 104,000.To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee – 99,000.The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner – 97,000.Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro – 96,000.A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway – 83,000.The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro – 70,000.The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain – 68,000.The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway – 68,000.Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Huston – 64,000.Lord of the Flies by William Golding – 60,000.As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner – 57,000.Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck – 55,000.The Bluest Eyes by Toni Morrison – 52,000.Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe – 50,000.Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut – 49,000.Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck – 30,000.A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens – 28,000.Now you won’t need to scour the web to find them again. Here are the numbers on highly-praised literary fiction, fantasy and science fiction. I want to share what I’ve found so that you won’t waste time looking yourself. I’ve wasted hours upon hours looking up word counts.

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