The Ten Hundred Most Used English Words
Okay so technically this is not a novel. But I loved the premise of it, things explained with the 1000 most used words. I have not been a frequent reader of XKCD, but I knew of the existence of it.
Book Review: Thing Explainer by Randall Munroe
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Title & Author: Thing Explainer by Randall Munroe
Genre: Science, Humor
Release Date: November 24 2015
Series: Standalone
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Synopsis
In Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words, things are explained in the style of Up Goer Five, using only drawings and a vocabulary of the 1,000 (or “ten hundred”) most common words. Explore computer buildings (datacenters), the flat rocks we live on (tectonic plates), the things you use to steer a plane (airliner cockpit controls), and the little bags of water you’re made of (cells).