More recent direct democracy proposals tend to focus on voting schemes (usually high tech) that would allow widespread, virtually continual voting by millions of citizens on whatever proposals surfaced.
Only one book (Order of the Phoenix) topped 200,000 words, but there were two books that came close with more than 190,000 words (Goblet of Fire and Deathly Hallows). When added all together, the Harry Potter books contain 1,084,170 words.
Agatha Christie, the bestselling mystery writer of all time, wrote novels that averaged about 40,000 to 60,000 words. However, most agents and writers say your mystery novel should be the same word count as general fiction, 80,000 to 90,000 words. Weâll do more research on this, but if in doubt, shoot for 80,000 words.