Author · born 9 November 1934 · died 20 December 1996
Carl Sagan books: page counts
4 books by Carl Sagan with enough editions on Open Library to give a reliable page count.
Books
4
with page data
Longest
457
The Demon-Haunted World
Shortest
271
The Dragons of Eden
Pages per book
Median page count, in order of first publication.
Every book
| Book | First published | Median pages | Range | Reading time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Dragons of Eden | 1977 | 271 | 263–288 | 4 h 47 min |
| Cosmos | 1980 | 365 | 208–487 | 7 h 02 min |
| Contact | 1985 | 432 | 352–664 | 7 h 37 min |
| The Demon-Haunted World | 1995 | 457 | 436–480 | 8 h 48 min |
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)).