Humans of New York: Stories
Published 2015 · 428 pages · 117,700 words · about 5 hours at an average pace · Nonfiction, Journalism & Reportage
How hard is Humans of New York: Stories to read?
Humans of New York: Stories scores 13 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it relatively accessible. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 15 out of 100
- Stanton's subjects speak in everyday spoken English, with slang, jokes and plain statements of feeling. The prose sits near the simplicity of Anne Frank's diary, with no specialized terms to decode.
- Sentence structure: 16 out of 100
- Entries are short, conversational and built from simple sentences, with the fragments and restarts of real speech. Nothing demands the nested attention of a literary novel.
- Abstraction: 22 out of 100
- Each entry grounds itself in a specific person, a job, a loss or a memory. Ideas about love, regret and ambition arrive through concrete anecdote, much as Atomic Habits turns concepts into examples.
- Information density: 25 out of 100
- Each page offers one face and a few paragraphs, so the pace stays light. Over hundreds of entries the volume of lives accumulates, but no single page loads the reader.
How Humans of New York: Stories is regarded
Humans of New York: Stories holds a literary regard score of 36 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.