A more commercially-focused dataset. Essay. 800 words, 4-minute read. A few months ago I posted an essay which looked at the word counts/page lengths of novels over the past century, or so. (https://raytabler.substack.com/p/novel-lengths-over-the-years) This was an effort to verify (or disprove) the anecdote that novels used to be a lot…
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Book Lengths Over the Years
Book Lengths Over the Years By Ray Tabler Since writing my first novel, the subject of word counts has haunted me. In short, I struggle to write long books. This is a problem these days, because long books are in vogue. Publishers prefer word counts north of 80,000. The farther…