Collected extent · 14 works
Doyle, Arthur Conan
14 works measured — 1,087,688 words in total, roughly 72h 31m of reading at an average pace.
Works measured14public domain
Total words1,087,688combined
Reading time73hall works
Average grade7.5Flesch–Kincaid
SOURCE·Project Gutenberg full texts·14 editions counted, one rule·REVIEWED JUL 2026
The works, longest first
| Work | Words | Reading time | Grade | Unique words |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Return of Sherlock Holmes | 112,475 | 7h 30m | 7 | 8,277 |
| The Return of Sherlock Holmes | 112,412 | 7h 30m | 7 | 8,634 |
| Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | 106,347 | 7h 05m | 7.9 | 8,424 |
| The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | 104,562 | 6h 58m | 7.9 | 8,183 |
| The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes | 95,619 | 6h 22m | 8.1 | 7,759 |
| The case-book of Sherlock Holmes | 82,796 | 5h 31m | 6.3 | 7,913 |
| The Lost World | 75,795 | 5h 03m | 8.6 | 8,350 |
| Tales of Terror and Mystery | 75,117 | 5h 00m | 8.7 | 7,892 |
| The Hound of the Baskervilles | 59,370 | 3h 57m | 7.9 | 5,688 |
| The Hound of the Baskervilles | 59,227 | 3h 57m | 8 | 5,820 |
| His last bow | 59,224 | 3h 57m | 6.7 | 6,250 |
| The Valley of Fear | 58,029 | 3h 52m | 6.7 | 5,745 |
| A Study in Scarlet | 43,504 | 2h 54m | 7.9 | 5,795 |
| The Sign of the Four | 43,211 | 2h 53m | 6.8 | 5,543 |
Only works with a Project Gutenberg plain-text edition appear here, so a bibliography will be longer than this table. What is counted, and what is struck first.
