1 | A Game of Thrones
George R. R. Martin #1 When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives. | | 100.00% | 209.11 WPM | 796pp weighted 100% | |
2 | Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace #214 But his hair was a black person's hair, and he wore it in thick dreadlocks that looked like a crown of wet cigars. | | 100.00% | 186.77 WPM | 724pp weighted 95% | |
3 | Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace #35 The doctor smelled shame in the room, sour and uremic. | | 100.00% | 188.44 WPM | 662pp weighted 90% | |
4 | Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky #145 In spite of her eighteen years, she looked almost a little girl - almost a child. And in some of her gestures, this childishness seemed almost absurd. | | 100.00% | 170.62 WPM | 621pp weighted 86% | |
5 | The Bill of Rights: A Transcription
William Lambert & Benjamin Bankson #1 The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. | | 97.96% | 155.65 WPM | 590pp weighted 81% | |
6 | Moby Dick; Or, The Whale
Herman Melville #21 But that gold watch he sought was the innermost life of the fish. | | 100.00% | 205.12 WPM | 559pp weighted 77% | |
7 | Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen #43 Elizabeth could not but be pleased, could not but triumph. It was consoling that he should know she had some relations for whom there was no need to blush. She listened most attentively to all that passed between them, and gloried in every expression, every sentence of her uncle, which marked his intelligence, his taste, or his good manners. The conversation soon turned upon fishing; and she heard Mr. Darcy invite him, with the greatest civility, to fish there as often as he chose, while he continued in the neighbourhood, offering at the same time to supply him with fishing tackle, and pointing out those parts of the stream where there was usually most sport. | | 95.97% | 144.87 WPM | 527pp weighted 74% | |
8 | Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky #124 The workmen had obviously stayed beyond their time and now they were hurriedly rolling up their paper and getting ready to go home. They took no notice of Raskolnikov's coming in; they were talking. | | 100.00% | 162.87 WPM | 497pp weighted 70% | |
9 | War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy #42 The enormous study was full of things evidently in constant use. | | 100.00% | 184.25 WPM | 470pp weighted 66% | |
10 | This Earth of Mankind
Pramoedya Ananta Toer #33 Yet her clever mother subdued people so they would bow down to her will. | | 100.00% | 188.70 WPM | 445pp weighted 63% | |
11 | War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy #175 The peasants feared him more than they did their master. | | 100.00% | 200.12 WPM | 422pp weighted 60% | |
12 | Deadpool
Tim Miller #1 I didn't just get the cure to el cancer, I got the cure to el everything. | | 100.00% | 185.64 WPM | 401pp weighted 57% | |
13 | This Earth of Mankind
Pramoedya Ananta Toer #52 I understood how she felt so I never asked about it. | | 100.00% | 193.79 WPM | 376pp weighted 54% | |
14 | Into The Mouth Of Abondoment
Danzig #1 It seems the harder you try to hold something in your arms, the quicker it dies. | | 100.00% | 191.74 WPM | 355pp weighted 51% | |
15 | Jurassic Park
Micheal Crichton #5 Chaos theory originally grew out of attempts to make computer models of weather in the 1960s. | | 97.93% | 172.12 WPM | 337pp weighted 49% | |
16 | Invincible
Robert Kirkman #9 I will burn this planet down before I spend another minute living among these animals! | | 100.00% | 182.20 WPM | 320pp weighted 46% | |
17 | Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky #131 It will take time to take him to the hospital, and there is sure to be a doctor in the house. | | 100.00% | 191.13 WPM | 303pp weighted 44% | |
18 | Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes #5 Bethink you now if it be reasonable that his suffering should be laid to my charge. | | 100.00% | 188.83 WPM | 286pp weighted 42% | |
19 | The Door in the Wall
H.G. Wells #1 I was leaning over the apron of my hansom smoking a cigarette, and no doubt thinking myself no end of a man of the world, and suddenly there was the door, the wall, the dear sense of unforgettable and still attainable things.
We clattered by - I too taken by surprise to stop my cab until we were past a corner. Then I had a queer moment, a double and divergent movement of my will: I tapped the little door in the roof of the cab, and brought my arm down to pull out my watch. "Yes, sir!" said the cabman, smartly. "Er - well - it's nothing," I tried. "My mistake! We haven't much time! Go on!" and he went on.... | | 91.56% | 132.64 WPM | 270pp weighted 40% | |
20 | The Holy Bible
Matthew #2 Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God. | | 97.20% | 166.12 WPM | 255pp weighted 38% | |
21 | Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace #188 You let me room with you because you feel sorry for me. | | 100.00% | 200.99 WPM | 242pp weighted 36% | |
22 | Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace #204 It means your blood pressure was high enough to have killed you. | | 100.00% | 188.85 WPM | 229pp weighted 34% | |
23 | In Search of Lost Time
Marcel Proust #1 Once we have reached a certain degree of enfeeblement, whether caused by age or by ill health, all pleasure taken at the expense of sleep, every disturbance of routine, becomes a nuisance. | | 95.02% | 150.24 WPM | 217pp weighted 32% | |
24 | Baldur's Gate 3
Larian Studios #5 I will investigate further before informing the others. Kagha will demand answers I don't yet have. I had better record any further findings in a separate volume and keep them upon my person, lest prying eyes jump to the wrong conclusions. | | 96.42% | 148.91 WPM | 206pp weighted 31% | |
25 | Brave New World
Aldous Huxley #4 "I want to know what passion is," she heard him saying. "I want to feel something strongly." | | 98.93% | 167.38 WPM | 189pp weighted 29% | |
26 | This Earth of Mankind
Pramoedya Ananta Toer #54 Perhaps something far worse than I could ever imagine. | | 100.00% | 192.08 WPM | 178pp weighted 28% | |
27 | Entourage
Doug Ellin #9 And the next person I see juggling, tap dancing, or baton twirling, or doing any other circus-like tricks, will join him. | | 100.00% | 147.32 WPM | 167pp weighted 26% | |
28 | War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy #13 The lines of that mouth were remarkably finely curved. | | 100.00% | 171.15 WPM | 158pp weighted 25% | |
29 | Faint
Linkin Park #1 I am what I want you to want, what I want you to feel. | | 99.99% | 201.30 WPM | 150pp weighted 24% | |
30 | Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace #75 I walk around with my arms out straight in front of me and recite these cliches. | | 100.00% | 170.78 WPM | 142pp weighted 23% | |
31 | This Earth of Mankind
Pramoedya Ananta Toer #48 This has been going on for five years now, since I was in school. | | 100.00% | 174.11 WPM | 135pp weighted 21% | |
32 | Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace #187 This holds true regardless of whether the fathers are still alive. | | 100.00% | 170.15 WPM | 127pp weighted 20% | |
33 | War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy #160 The whole house was in a state of alarm and commotion. | | 100.00% | 174.91 WPM | 119pp weighted 19% | |
34 | Game of Thrones
David Benioff, DB Weiss #8 They fought together, against their common enemy. Despite their differences, despite their suspicions, together. And we need to do the same if we're going to survive because the enemy is real. It's always been real. | | 86.74% | 134.73 WPM | 107pp weighted 18% | |
35 | Candle In The Wind
Elton John #1 It seems to me you lived your life like a candle in the wind, never knowing who to cling to when the rain set in. And I would have liked to have known you but I was just a kid. | | 90.29% | 151.73 WPM | 102pp weighted 17% | |
36 | This Earth of Mankind
Pramoedya Ananta Toer #85 They had been without a mother for the last ten years. | | 100.00% | 177.35 WPM | 96pp weighted 17% | |
37 | War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy #219 The diplomatist preserved a mournful silence as he left the drawing room. He pictured the vanity of his diplomatic career in comparison with Pierre's happiness. | | 93.82% | 129.61 WPM | 91pp weighted 16% | |
38 | lied to my face
Tyde #1 Maybe the worst part is how I end up worse off. Comments made, voices raised, my trauma triggered war scars. | | 97.36% | 135.01 WPM | 86pp weighted 15% | |
39 | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Stanley Kubrick #3 Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room. | | 100.00% | 151.41 WPM | 81pp weighted 14% | |
40 | Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace #222 It grew always colder down on the desert floor; they could feel this. | | 97.26% | 146.78 WPM | 76pp weighted 14% | |
41 | War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy #215 Give my respects to monsieur your father and my compliments to Mademoiselle Bourienne. I embrace you as I love you. | | 92.30% | 132.03 WPM | 71pp weighted 13% | |
42 | War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy #172 No, it was something, something in the drawing room. | | 100.00% | 171.23 WPM | 68pp weighted 12% | |
43 | The Constitution of the United States: A Transcription
Jacob Shallus #2 All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives. | | 98.70% | 124.91 WPM | 64pp weighted 12% | |
44 | Jurassic Park
Micheal Crichton #3 They are not free at all. They are essentially our prisoners. | | 81.39% | 92.84 WPM | 38pp weighted 11% | |