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Author · born 13 June 1893 · died 17 December 1957

Dorothy L. Sayers books: page counts

3 books by Dorothy L. Sayers with enough editions on Open Library to give a reliable page count.

Books
3
with page data
Longest
480
Gaudy Night
Shortest
218
Whose Body?

Pages per book

Median page count, in order of first publication.

The Nine Tailors (1959)331Whose Body? (1988)218Gaudy Night (1993)480
The Nine Tailors (19…331Whose Body? (1988)218Gaudy Night (1993)480
Open Library edition records.

Every book

BookFirst publishedMedian pagesRangeReading time
The Nine Tailors1959331255–5045 h 50 min
Whose Body?1988218140–3553 h 51 min
Gaudy Night1993480383–7468 h 28 min

Reading all 3 takes about 18 h 08 min at average speed (1,029 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)).