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Bungo Search lets you search free e-books on Project Gutenberg by Time-to-Read.
You can search for example: Mark Twain's short-short works of 10min to read.

Time-to-Read

Time-to-Read of each work is calculated by the average reading speed of 300 words per minutes.
See details below:
Time-to-Read Words
5min less than 1,500 words
10min 1,501 to 3,000 words
30min 3,001 to 9,000 words
1h 9,001 to 18,000 words
2h 18,001 to 36,000 words
3h 36,001 to 54,000 words
over 3h more than 54,001 words

Popularity

The popularity of each work is calculated on the download count on Project Gutenberg.
See details below:
Popularity Downloads Count
Over 51
Between 16 to 50
Between 1 to 15
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English Words Level (NGSL ratio)

BungoSearch shows NGSL words ratio of each book for English learners.
NGSL stands for NEW GENERAL SERVICE LIST , which is a list of basic english words which covers 92% of general english sentences.
The higher ratio means the book consists mainly of basic words and might be easier to read.
And if you go to the book detail page, you can download the words in CSV which appears in that book.
  NGSL ratio and CSV download are currently available only for books of 5min and 10min to read.