Bibliothèque de la Pléiade
Bibliothèque de la Pléiade names 18 books; ReadingRate holds 5 of them, listed here. The most approachable of them is Water Margin by Shi Nai'an (difficulty 47/100, about 33 hours); the hardest is Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (68/100).
- Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897) — difficulty 53/100, about 11 hours
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818) — difficulty 68/100, about 8.8 hours
- The Red and the Black by Stendhal (1830) — difficulty 64/100, about 17 hours
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1869) — difficulty 53/100, about 39 hours
- Water Margin by Shi Nai'an (1589) — difficulty 47/100, about 33 hours
Questions
- How many books are on Bibliothèque de la Pléiade?
- 18. ReadingRate holds 5 of them, each with how hard it is to read and how long it takes.
- Which book on Bibliothèque de la Pléiade is the easiest to read?
- Water Margin by Shi Nai'an, difficulty 47/100, about 33 hours. The hardest is Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, at 68/100.
- How long would it take to read every book on Bibliothèque de la Pléiade?
- About 109 hours for the 5 books ReadingRate measures, at 250 words a minute adjusted for each book's difficulty: 54 days at two hours a day.
Other lists: Penguin Classics Collection, Penguin Modern Classics, NYRB Classics, Everyman's Library, Library of America, Biblioteca Ayacucho, Heinemann African Writers Series, Oxford World's Classics, UNESCO Collection of Representative Works. All lists.