diff --git a/frequency.py b/frequency.py
index acaa449..966541a 100644
--- a/frequency.py
+++ b/frequency.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 	Project Gutenberg """
 
 import string
+from string import maketrans
 
 def get_word_list(file_name):
 	""" Reads the specified project Gutenberg book.  Header comments,
@@ -9,7 +10,55 @@ def get_word_list(file_name):
 		returns a list of the words used in the book as a list.
 		All words are converted to lower case.
 	"""
-	pass
+	f = open(file_name,'r')
+	lines = f.readlines()
+	curr_line = 0
+	while lines[curr_line].find('TOM!') == -1:
+		curr_line += 1
+	lines = lines[curr_line:]
+
+	#replace all punctuation and whitespace
+	newlines = []
+	intab = string.punctuation
+	outtab = " " * len(string.punctuation)
+	trantab = maketrans(intab, outtab)
+
+	for i in lines[:]:
+		i = i.strip() #strip whitespace
+		if not(i == ""):
+			i = i.translate(trantab) #strip punctuation
+			i = i.lower()
+			i = i.strip()
+			newlines.append(i)
+
+	#split into individual words
+	words = []
+	for i in newlines[:]:
+		i = i.split()
+		words.extend(i)
+
+	#take out the words I don't like
+	words_i_dont_like = ['the', 'and', 'a', 'to', 'of', 'it', 'he',
+						 'was', 'that', 'i', 'in', 'you', 's', 'his',
+						 'with', 't', 'they', 'but', 'for', 'had',
+						 'him', 'as', 'she', 'on', 'at', 'so', 'said',
+						 'all', 'there', 'this', 'be', 'then', 'not', 'up',
+						 'by', 'now', 'her', 'out', 'no', 'were', 'if',
+						 'what', 'would', 'll', 'don', 'or', 'when', 'me', 'is',
+						 'do', 'we', 'their', 'one', 'from', 'time', 'an',
+						 'could', 'got', 'well', 'about', 'them', 'have',
+						 'down', 'any', 'boys', 'did', 'been', 'upon',
+						 'just', 'more', 'see', 'into', 'go', 'd',
+						 'over', 'boy', 'away', 'know', 'never', 'again', 'come',
+						 'can', 'like', 'other', 'ain', 'back', 'oh', 'came',
+						 'some', 'two', 'went', 'get', 'here',
+						 'long', 't', 'm', 're', 've', 'too', 'off', 'your']
+	final_words=[]
+	for word in words:
+		if word not in words_i_dont_like:
+			final_words.append(word)
+	return final_words
+
 
 def get_top_n_words(word_list, n):
 	""" Takes a list of words as input and returns a list of the n most frequently
@@ -19,6 +68,15 @@ def get_top_n_words(word_list, n):
 					punctuation
 		n: the number of words to return
 		returns: a list of n most frequently occurring words ordered from most
-				 frequently to least frequentlyoccurring
+				 frequently to least frequently occurring
 	"""
-	pass
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+	word_counts = dict()
+	for word in word_list:
+		#increments word count by 1
+		word_counts[word] = word_counts.get(word, 0) + 1
+	ordered_by_frequency = sorted(word_counts, key=word_counts.get, reverse=True)
+	return ordered_by_frequency[:n]
+
+
+word_list = get_word_list("TomSawyer.txt")
+print get_top_n_words(word_list,100)
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