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There's not really an answer to this question. A book could have no words, or it could have hundreds of thousands.

If it helps, the Nebula Awards make a distinction between "works of between 17,500 and 40,000 words" and "works of 40,000 words or more", calling the former novellas and the latter novels. Both novels and novellas have been published as books... Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, for example, has about 26,500 words.

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