diff --git a/frequency.py b/frequency.py
index acaa449..171718c 100644
--- a/frequency.py
+++ b/frequency.py
@@ -3,13 +3,59 @@
 
 import string
 
+
 def get_word_list(file_name):
 	""" Reads the specified project Gutenberg book.  Header comments,
 		punctuation, and whitespace are stripped away.  The function
 		returns a list of the words used in the book as a list.
 		All words are converted to lower case.
 	"""
-	pass
+	book = open(file_name,'r+')
+	lines = book.readlines()
+	curr_line = 0
+	while lines[curr_line].find('THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY') == -1:
+	    curr_line += 1
+	nope = lines[:curr_line+1]
+	start = len(str(nope))
+	dorian = str(lines[start:])
+	dorian = dorian[::-1]
+	dorian = dorian[30110:]
+	dorian = dorian[::-1]
+
+	dorian = dorian.replace("\\r\\n"," ")
+	dorian = dorian.translate(None,".,!:;*/_-()\\[]&?1234567890")
+	dorian = dorian.replace('"',' ')
+	dorian = dorian.replace("'"," ")
+	dorian = dorian.replace("rn"," ")
+	dorian = dorian.replace("   "," ")
+	dorian = dorian.replace("  "," ")
+	dorian = dorian.replace("  "," ")
+	dorian = dorian.lower()
+	dorian = dorian.split()
+	return dorian
+	book.close()
+
+
+
+def histogram(s):
+    d = dict()
+    for c in s:
+        if d.get(c,0)>0:
+            d[c] = d[c] + 1
+        else:
+            d[c] = d.get(c,1) + d.get(c,0)  
+    return d
+
+def most_frequent(s):
+    hist = histogram(s)
+    t = []
+    for x, freq in hist.iteritems():
+        t.append((freq, x))
+    t.sort(reverse=True)
+    res = []
+    for freq, x in t:
+        res.append(x)
+    return res
 
 def get_top_n_words(word_list, n):
 	""" Takes a list of words as input and returns a list of the n most frequently
@@ -21,4 +67,9 @@ def get_top_n_words(word_list, n):
 		returns: a list of n most frequently occurring words ordered from most
 				 frequently to least frequentlyoccurring
 	"""
-	pass
\ No newline at end of file
+	words = get_word_list(word_list)
+	ranking = most_frequent(words)
+	return ranking[0:n-1]
+
+print get_word_list('pg32325.txt')
+print get_top_n_words('pg32325.txt', 100)