Slightly Offended, Sort of

Too many words?

Story is too long?

There’s just so many

words to choose,

that I really like to use.

It hurts man,

it hurts.

Author                                  — Book Title                                      — Word Count
(in case it wasn’t obvious)

Alan Paton	Cry, the Beloved Country	83,774
Alice Walker	The Color Purple	66,556
Amy Tan	The Kitchen God’s Wife	159,276
Amy Tan	Joy Luck Club	91,419
Ayn Rand	Atlas Shrugged	561,996
Ayn Rand	The Fountainhead	311,596
Betty Smith	A Tree Grows in Brooklyn	145,092
Charles Dickens	A Tale of Two Cities	135,420
Daniel Defoe	Moll Flanders	138,087
Emily Bronte	Wuthering Heights	107,945
Erich Remarque	All Quiet on the Western Front	61,922
Ernest Hemingway	The Sun Also Rises	67,707
Frank Norris	McTeague	112,737
Fyodor Dostoyevsky	Crime and Punishment	211,591
George Eliot	Middlemarch	316,059
George Orwell	Nineteen Eighty-Four	88,942
Harper Lee	To Kill A Mockingbird	99,121
Harriet Beecher Stowe	Uncle Tom’s Cabin	166,622
Henry David Thoreau	Walden	114,634
Honore de Balzac	Pere Goriot	87,846
J.D. Salinger	The Catcher in the Rye	73,404
James Fenimore Cooper	Last of the Mohicans	145,469
Jane Austen	Persuasion	87,978
John Knowles	A Separate Peace	56,787
John Steinback	The Grapes of Wrath	169,481
John Steinback	East of Eden	225,395
Joseph Heller	Catch-22	174,269
Kurt Vonnegut	Slaughterhouse-Five	49,459
Kurt Vonnegut	Welcome to the Monkey House	99,560
Leo Tolstoy	War and Peace	587,287
Margaret Atwood	Alias Grace	157,665
Mark Twain	The Adventures of Huck Finn	109,571
Mark Twain	Life on the Mississippi	127,776
Maxine Hong Kingston	Woman Warrior	70,957
Milan Kundera	The Unbearable Lightness of Being	85,199
Nathaniel Hawthorne	The Scarlet Letter	63,604
Oscar Wilde	The Picture of Dorian Gray	78,462
Ray Bradbury	Fahrenheit 451	46,118
Ray Bradbury	The Martian Chronicles	64,768
Toni Morrison	Song of Solomon	92,400
Virginia Woolf	Mrs. Dalloway	63,422
William Faulkner	As I Lay Dying	56,695
William Golding	Lord of the Flies	59,900

 I’m sorry my story

yesterday had 1,882 words in

it.

I’ll try to do better.