List of 50,000 Word Novels

Here is a partial list of well-known novels that contain roughly 50,000 words, which in turn is roughly 175 pages, and are thus comparable to the average size of a NaNoWriMo winner's novel.

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (46,333 words)
• The Notebook by Nicholas Khan (52,000 words)
• The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (50,061 words)
• Lost Horizon by James Hilton
• Shattered by Dean Koontz
• Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
• The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
• The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells
• Gadsby: A Story of Over 50,000 Words Without Using the Letter "E" by Ernest Vincent Wright

Interestingly, Brave New World, the novel famed to be the one Chris Baty used to choose the 50,000-word goal in No Plot? No Problem!, is 64,575 words long.

The NaNoWriMo website previously had a topic on their website, which was wiped in the site relaunch. It is still up on the Wayback Machine.