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Author · born 8 December 1951

Bill Bryson books: page counts

8 books by Bill Bryson with enough editions on Open Library to give a reliable page count.

Books
8
with page data
Longest
586
At Home
Shortest
270
The Mother Tongue

Pages per book

Median page count, in order of first publication.

A Short History of Nearly Everything552A Walk in the Woods320At Home586In a Sunburned Country335Notes from a Small Island324The Body464The Lost Continent341The Mother Tongue270
A Short History of N…552A Walk in the Woods320At Home586In a Sunburned Count…335Notes from a Small I…324The Body464The Lost Continent341The Mother Tongue270
Open Library edition records.

Every book

BookFirst publishedMedian pagesRangeReading time
A Short History of Nearly Everything–552500–93910 h 38 min
A Walk in the Woods–320276–4696 h 10 min
At Home–586497–76811 h 18 min
In a Sunburned Country–335307–5786 h 27 min
Notes from a Small Island–324272–5036 h 14 min
The Body–464448–5448 h 56 min
The Lost Continent–341256–4986 h 34 min
The Mother Tongue–270269–2885 h 12 min

Reading all 8 takes about 61 h 29 min at average speed (3,192 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)).