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Author · born 1 April 1926 · died 21 November 2011

Anne McCaffrey books: page counts

12 books by Anne McCaffrey with enough editions on Open Library to give a reliable page count.

Books
12
with page data
Longest
478
All the Weyrs of Pern
Shortest
202
Dragonsong

Pages per book

Median page count, in order of first publication.

All the Weyrs of Pern478Dragondrums241Dragonflight309Dragonquest333Dragonsdawn431Dragonsinger277Dragonsong202Moreta358The Renegades of Pern339The Rowan324The Ship Who Sang248The White Dragon471
All the Weyrs of Pern478Dragondrums241Dragonflight309Dragonquest333Dragonsdawn431Dragonsinger277Dragonsong202Moreta358The Renegades of Pern339The Rowan324The Ship Who Sang248The White Dragon471
Open Library edition records.

Every book

BookFirst publishedMedian pagesRangeReading time
All the Weyrs of Pern–478404–4968 h 26 min
Dragondrums–242193–3044 h 15 min
Dragonflight–309144–3525 h 27 min
Dragonquest–333304–4485 h 52 min
Dragonsdawn–431337–8047 h 36 min
Dragonsinger–277240–3474 h 53 min
Dragonsong–202176–2563 h 34 min
Moreta–358286–4806 h 19 min
The Renegades of Pern–340305–3845 h 59 min
The Rowan–324235–3355 h 43 min
The Ship Who Sang–248205–3494 h 22 min
The White Dragon–472464–4978 h 19 min

Reading all 12 takes about 70 h 44 min at average speed (4,012 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)).