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Author · born February 2, 1905 · died March 6, 1982

Ayn Rand books: page counts

3 books by Ayn Rand with enough editions on Open Library to give a reliable page count.

Books
3
with page data
Longest
1,168
Atlas Shrugged
Shortest
92
Anthem

Pages per book

Median page count, in order of first publication.

Anthem92Atlas Shrugged1,168The Fountainhead727
Anthem92Atlas Shrugged1,168The Fountainhead727
Open Library edition records.

Every book

BookFirst publishedMedian pagesRangeReading time
Anthem–9248–1471 h 37 min
Atlas Shrugged–1,1681,075–1,20020 h 35 min
The Fountainhead–727353–75412 h 49 min

Reading all 3 takes about 35 h 02 min at average speed (1,987 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)).