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Author · born 1915-01-06 · died 1973-11-16

Alan Watts books: page counts

4 books by Alan Watts with enough editions on Open Library to give a reliable page count.

Books
4
with page data
Longest
236
The Way of Zen
Shortest
146
The Book

Pages per book

Median page count, in order of first publication.

The Wisdom of Insecurity (1951)148The Book (1966)146Nature, Man,& Woman (1970)209The Way of Zen (1989)236
The Wisdom of Insecu…148The Book (1966)146Nature, Man,& Woman …209The Way of Zen (1989)236
Open Library edition records.

Every book

BookFirst publishedMedian pagesRangeReading time
The Wisdom of Insecurity1951148136–1602 h 51 min
The Book1966146146–1762 h 49 min
Nature, Man,& Woman1970209115–2244 h 01 min
The Way of Zen1989236236–2564 h 33 min

Reading all 4 takes about 14 h 14 min at average speed (739 pages).

Data: Open Library monthly data dumps (works, editions, authors, reading log, ratings) (Open Library / Internet Archive); How many words do we read per minute? A review and meta-analysis of reading rate (Marc Brysbaert, Journal of Memory and Language 109 (2019)).