The longest chapter is book 5, chapter detention with dolores at 9,001 words. When combined, the total harry potter word count is over a million words. Some are m rated, so please enjoy at your own discretion. Harry potter has ideas expressed in other books but this is something different.
The harry potter series is wellloved all round the world. What other book might you compare harry potter and the philosophers stone, book 1 to and why. Im reading for the first time this book to my daughter 6 years old, but for me 37 years old its the third time i read harry potter and the philosophers stone. Based on this list compiled by nicole humphrey cook. Jun 26, 1997 english harry potter and the philosophers stone italiano. Harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban 107 253 words. The books were announced on pottermore, a website that includes all things harry potter. Books 4 through 6 easily represent the heftiest segment of the series, and then theres a very clear pattern of gradual increase from path of daggers all the way through a memory of light. Rowling brought us the world of harry potter and endowed it with an. Find out how long your favourite books are and how they compare to. Harry potter harry potter glossary harry potter books. A vocabulary list featuring harry potter and the deathly hallows. How many words are there in the harry potter book series. Here are the number of pages in the harry potter books listed.
Harry potter and the philosophers stone 76944 harry potter and the chamber of secrets 85141 harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban 107253 harry. There is a good selection of harry and hermione stories as well as with a few other cannon females. Th e first book harry potter and the sorcerers stone has 76,944 words. Sep 24, 2014 can you name the first 200 words of harry potter and the sorcerers. Words counts of bestselling novels better novel project. Apr 07, 2020 but at nearly three hours, if theres such a thing as too much harry potter, this is it. Its great to know the length of such good books especially for budding writers. There are powerful harry, dark harry, manipulative dumbledore, time travel, and au stories here. Below is the order of all of the harry potter books, as well as recommendations for other books like harry potter.
How many words are in harry potter and the deathly hallows. Say youve spent the first 10 years of your life sleeping under the stairs of a family who loathes you. Harry potter and the chamber of secrets 85 141 words. In defense of its length, however, she challenged anyone to find the obvious place to cut. The play opened on 30 july 2016 at the palace theatre, london, england. Word count for famous novels, in ascending order by number of words. On his eleventh birthday, orphan harry potter learns the shocking truth. How the harry potter characters looked in the books vs. All 8 harry potter movies, ranked from worst to best. Jul 12, 2007 here are the number of pages in the harry potter books listed.
The best performing ones merely create a sentence based upon a single paragraph, or cut the length of a sentence in half while maintaining as much information as possible. Only 2 of the 7 harry potter books came in at under 100,000 words. While most fans appreciate the books and the movies for their respective merits, there are plenty of book fans who think the movies did a fairly poor job of representing the intricacy and beauty of. Then, in an absurd, magical twist of fate you find yourself. Harry potter and the cursed child is a twopart west end stage play.
Harry potter and the sorcerers stone has 17 chapters with titles, and about 4560 words per chapter. Harry potter fans have read more than 1 million words, what about you. So the weighted average chapter length across the whole series is 5542 words rounded to the nearest whole word. And as you can see, it varies, depending on the story.
A wand is a quasisentient magical instrument through which a witch or wizard channels her or his magical powers to centralise the effects for more complex results. For example, the incantation accio firebolt would cause the required broomstick to fly into the hand of the person using the charm. Most spells are cast with the aid of wands, but spells can be cast without the use of wands. Rowling, mary grandpre october 1998 order in the next 7 hours 26 minutes and get it by tuesday, march 03. The cloak is first used in harry potter and the philosophers stone, chapter 12. The last book in the series, harry potter and the deathly hallows, is 157.
Harry potter and the philosophers stone, book 1 audiobook. Sentiment analysis on the texts of harry potter towards. Long before she became the queen of twitter or the beloved author of harry potter, j. Word counts of the most popular books in the world foster grant uk.
The seventh and final book in the harry potter series, harry potter and the deathly hallows. Harry potter text analysis becoming a data analyst medium. This is a list of the novels over 500,000 words published through a mainstream publisher. Only 2 of the 7 harry potter books came in at under 100,000 words sorcerers stones and chamber of secrets which happened to be the first two books in the series. Only one book order of the phoenix topped 200,000 words, but there were two books that came close with more than 190,000 words goblet of fire and deathly hallows. Except that, actually, the first harry potter novel, by todays standards, was marketed not as ya but as middle grades which has an even shorter acceptable length around 50,000 words per the linked advice above. Dive into the magical world of this ultimate harry potter novel length fan fiction archive. It was published worldwide in english on 21 june 2003. Can you name the first 200 words of harry potter and the sorcerers stone. In fact, dr smith says, harry potter harks back to books like the boarding school stories enid blyton wrote in the 1950s, or the littleknown tom browns school days from the victorian era. Note the us edition has more pages heres why according to one source this entry was posted on thursday, july 12th, 2007 at 1.
The books have also launched the infamous movie series. The first book, harry potter and the sorcerers stone, has 76,944 words. Statistics on harry potter chapter length science fiction. Harry potter and the deathly hallows vocabulary list. What if the characters of harry potter looked like they did in the books.
Word counts of famous book series harry potter by jk rowling when combined, the total harry potter word count is over a million words. For example, the incantation accio firebolt would cause the required broomstick. Wandless magic is, however, very difficult and requires much concentration and incredible skill. Notebooks and letters, originally posted on in 2007 and 2008, is the last of my three novel length harry potter fanfiction stories. If youre looking for word counts of your favorite books or series, then youve come. Learn the definitions of all of the wizarding words in the harry potter books with this glossary of common words. The precise location of the school can never be uncovered because it was rendered unplottable. Notebooks and letters, originally posted on in 2007 and 2008, is the last of my three novellength harry potter fanfiction stories. For average word counts based on genre, see this handy reference. Literature quiz harry potter first 200 words random literature or childrens books quiz. Previous posts in this series on basic nlp looked at topic modeling with latent dirichlet allocation and regular expressions, and my next post will look at sentiment analysis. The length of the book increases with the number of book in the series. Text summarization on the books of harry potter towards.
Aug 25, 2011 except that, actually, the first harry potter novel, by todays standards, was marketed not as ya but as middle grades which has an even shorter acceptable length around 50,000 words per the linked advice above. Title pages uk edition harry potter and the philosophers stone 223 pages. Jk rowling to release 3 more harry potter books investorplace. Flash fiction is anything from 100 to 500 words a short story is usually anything from 1,000 to 8,000 words, but many are often longer a novella is usually between 20,000 and 50,000 words the average novel is usually between 80,000 and 100,000 words. As dumbledore once said, fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself. Word count harry potter and the philosophers stone 76,944 words harry potter and the chamber. Also, heres another list i may swipe and add in here. Which means, yes, that harry potter is three times the length of the narniad. But at nearly three hours, if theres such a thing as too much harry potter, this is it. A quick check of the percy jackson series revealed the novels all staying around 89k per book, for a very rough total of 450,000 words. Click to enlarge image created by the company cartridge discount, this informative infographic catalogs the word counts of famous and popular.
There are 7 books in the harry potter series, but there are a few books on how the movies were made, and there are some different books that were featured in the harry potter series. Harry potter book series 7 books harry potter and the sorcerers stone by j. What is the order of shortest to the longest books of. Aug 18, 2016 the books were announced on pottermore, a website that includes all things harry potter. The three greatest spikes in that chart above are harry being chosen by the goblet of fire around chapter 70 of the series, cedric diggorys death at about chapter 88, and dumbledores death at about chapter 160.
Harry potter and the chamber of secrets has 85,141 words. The word count figures for the other six books, in order. The length, along with the dark storyline of a giant basilisk petrifying a bunch of muggleborn children, makes this film the least magical of the eight. In any case, to see how authors use this tactic to set their pacing, we also mapped out the word count of every chapter in four famous books. Vader, which stands for valence aware dictionary and sentiment reasoning, is a lexicon and rulebased tool that is specifically tuned to social media. Coming in at about 300,000 words, it is a retelling of the last three books of the series. Childrens books quiz, harry potter quiz, young adult quiz, begins with. In total, all seven harry potter books contain 1,084,170 words. One of the more interesting datapoints i found while analyzing this information was the length of the chapters through the wheel of time. The third book harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban has 107,253 words. It accepts magical students from great britain and ireland for enrollment. One of the more interesting datapoints i found while analyzing this information was. Harry potter and the philosophers stone 76 944 words. Harry potter and the halfblood prince was published on 16 july 2005.
The figure was found through looking at a number of books text stats, until brave new worlds 64,531 word count landed in the exact center of all books50% of books have fewer words and 50% of books have more words. Harry is of course the young wizard featured in numerous incredibly famous books written by author jk rowling. The premise is that hermione kept a series of journals documenting her years at hogwarts, and sold these to a book publisher, who then forwarded them to jkr. Famous book series and novel word counts number of words. Harry potter is one of the most wildly successful franchises in existence. There are 107,253 words in harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban. Harry potter uses the invisibility cloak in all of the harry potter books. The story is set nineteen years after the ending of harry potter and the deathly hallows and follows harry potter. There are many different characters, ships and genres in this archive but all fics are more than 40,000 words long and complete. There are 85,141 words in harry potter and the chamber of secrets. English harry potter and the philosophers stone italiano. Suppose the length of a chapter of a harry potter book, in words, is approximately normally distributed. But what about the fear of pronouncing those names entirely wrong. The entire harry potter series tips the scale at over a 1 million words, perhaps one of the only mgya series to do so.
According to amazons great text stats feature, the median length for all books is about 64,000 words. Word count for famous novels organized commonplace book. Harry potter and the goblet of fire has 190,637 words. What is the order of shortest to the longest books of harry.
This is a collection of novel length, well written, harry potter stories. There are 190,637 words in harry potter and the goblet. Given a string of text, it outputs a decimal between 0 and 1 for each of negativity, positivity, and neutrality for the text, as well as a compound score from 1 to. Not counting the epilogue, the shortest chapter is book 3, chapter 20 the dementors kiss at 2,018 words. Feb 09, 2015 the entire harry potter series tips the scale at over a 1 million words, perhaps one of the only mgya series to do so. Twilight has 24 titled chapters, or 26 if you count the preface and epilogue, and about 4580 words per chapter. Its certainly something we had to grapple with when we first read the harry potter books, from spells make the gar nice and long to beloved characters names. However, i understand that the length of twilight is unusually long for a debut novel. Rowling brought us the world of harry potter and endowed it with an impressive number of secrets. Dec 12, 2018 in this series of posts, im looking at a few handy nlp techniques, through the lens of harry potter. The length of her harry potter books increased with her fame. Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry harry potter. There are 76,944 words in harry potter and the sorcerers stone.
Dec 14, 2017 what if the characters of harry potter looked like they did in the books. Keep reading for 7 books she lovesthe author who inspired her fangirl moment might. Number of words of the harry potter series by book. A statistical analysis of robert jordans the wheel of time. To muggles, the school looks like an old abandoned.
Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry is the british wizarding school, located in the scottish highlands. Huttos vader package to extract the sentiment of each book. At an average reading rate of 125 words per minute, thats about 145 hours of reading. I created this list because my wordpress statistics indicate that people do web searches for this information. The average chapter word count of these novels falls within the 2,0005,000 range. Harry potter and the deathly hallows, the only book with officially 2 parts. How many pages are each of the harry potter books answers. Chapters are known to have an average length of 4580 words, with a standard deviation of 120 words. Does sentence length increase as the series progresses. It is a stateowned school funded by the ministry of magic. It is a stateowned school funded by the ministry of magic the precise location of the school can never be uncovered because it was rendered unplottable. It targeted not the teen demographic that is the ya domain but 1011 year olds. A vocabulary list featuring harry potter and the sorcerers stone by j. Harry potter names and words we pronounced wrongly for years.
Dec 21, 2018 by plotting at the vader compound score for each chapter of each book, we can clearly mark events in the books. How many words are there in all harry potter books. Harry potter and the sorcerers stone is about 77,500 words total. It has fewer words than the other six books, making it the shortest book in the series. Harry potter and the order of the phoenix is the longest book in the series, at 766 pages in the uk version and 870 pages in the us version. The story of the boy who lived captivated millions, first as a book series and then later over the course of eight films. Traditionally, artamene ou le grand cyrus, has been considered the longest novel, but has lately been surpassed by at least one novel, or two depending on the criterion used to determine length.