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50k is generally considered the minimum viable length for an adults' novel, with 60 or 65k+ probably preferred. But novels for younger audiences can be considerably shorter, so your coming of age novel is still right on target if the audience is young. On the other end of things, don't go too far above 100 to 120k as a debut writer.

So all your book lengths are squarely within publishers' preferred ranges.

The logic behind these ranges, for what it's worth, is that readers tend to feel cheated by novels shorter than at least 50k, but over 120k becomes too expensive to print. Also, not every reader wants huge tomes. (I much prefer shorter novels, personally.)

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