I read and loved your book! I was wondering how long it is (in words). It felt short, but I think that was because I was totally into it. Are YA novels a different length than adult novels?

After seeing this question, I decided to do a search and see what the average length of a novel is, whether it is Young Adult or not. I found I fell right in the norm for even an adult novel.

My books:

Book 1: The Unintended is 85,000 words

Book 2: The Nexus is 100,000 (thus far)

Book 3: The Sacrifice is 110,000 (again thus far…I still have the epilogue to add and that is 5,000 so far…and I'm not done!! ACK.)

All the info said pretty much the same thing…here is one example:

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The average length of a novel is 60,000-120,000 words

Some people say 80,000 - 100,000 is average. It isn't really well defined, but there is no maximum. You might be interested in the rules for the Hugo award:

For the Hugos, written fiction is divided by length into four categories: Novels (usually any full-length book, but defined by the rules as any work over 40,000 words); Novellas (from 17,500 words to 40,000); Novelettes (from 7,500 to 17,500 words) and Short Stories (7,500 words and under). Several magazines indicate which category a story falls into, but collections and web sites often do not. Not to worry — give it your best guess where a story fits, and the Hugo Administrator can relocate a nominated story to its proper category. There is even a 20% gray area. The idea is that if a story is within 20% of the boundary and gets most of its nominations in the "wrong" category, the Hugo Administrator is allowed to leave it in the category that most of the voters felt it belonged in, despite the official word count of the story.

Source: http://www.laconiv.org/2006/hugos/hugonom.htm

Sources: http://www.write101.com/dgnovel.htm