November 9 by Colleen Hoover
Published 2015 · 320 pages · 75,000 words · about 5 hours at an average pace · Literary Fiction, Romance
How hard is November 9 to read?
November 9 scores 20 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
- Simple, accessible language throughout.
- Sentence structure: 15 out of 100
- Abstraction: 15 out of 100
- Concrete romantic narrative with no theoretical layer.
- Information density: 28 out of 100
- Compressed by structure. Each chapter covers a year.
- Narrative indirection: 25 out of 100
- Time jumps and a major late twist create layered rereading.
- Symbolic density: 15 out of 100
- Fire and scars as central metaphors for damage and transformation.
- Ironic distance: 100 out of 100
- Sincere narration. The twist introduces dramatic irony.
- Resolution withholding: 30 out of 100
- The twist about Ben withheld until near the end.
- Structural complexity: 22 out of 100
- Time-jump structure with once-a-year meetings.
How November 9 is regarded
November 9 holds a literary regard score of 18 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.