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Where portions of my life have gone (book – word count):

Wheel of Time – 3M 304k
Sword of Truth (books 1-6) – 1M 774k (estimate)
Harry Potter – 1M 84k
A Song of Ice & Fire (books 1-3) – 1M 48k
Bible – 788k
Mistborn – 712k
Atlas Shrugged – 645k
Les Miserables – 531k
LotR – 473k
Count of Monte Cristo – 464k
Chronicles of Narnia – 323k
Three Musketeers – 288k
Red Storm Rising – 263k
Crime & Punishment – 211k
Holiness (Ryle) – 153k
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – 145k
A Tale of Two Cities – 135k
Pride & Prejudice – 120k
Pligrim’s Progress – 108k

There doesn’t seem to be as much interest on the internet in listing the length of biographies or Christian books, but feedbooks.com was useful for it’s word count of most older books. This started as Shanna’s curiosity regarding the comparative length of Les Mis & LotR and her follow-up inquiry as to the longest book in the world.

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