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Last year, I looked up average word counts for Historical Fiction (which is what I write), but I ended up taking notes for several other genres (though not all) out of curiosity. Here they are:

adult novels in general: 80,000-100,000
(this includes literary, crime, romance, ...)
sci-fi and fantasy: 90,000-115,000
(though the limit 120,000 is often mentioned too)
historical: 90,000-110,000
(though the limit 120,000 is often mentioned too)
mystery: 70,000-90,000
(though Agatha Christie's average was 40,000-60,000)
romance: 50,000-100,000
(so, from really short to general adult novel length)
YA: 55,000-80,000
(though 55,000-70,000 is often mentioned too)

At the time, I saw tens of pages until I came up with these averages, since some websites had conflicting numbers for some genres, but here are some of the first links to pop up after a similar google search:

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