Author · born 11 March 1952 · died 11 May 2001
Douglas Adams books: page counts
9 books by Douglas Adams with enough editions on Open Library to give a reliable page count.
Books
9
with page data
Longest
815
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the G
Shortest
196
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Pages per book
Median page count, in order of first publication.
Every book
| Book | First published | Median pages | Range | Reading time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Restaurant at the End of the Universe | 1980 | 225 | 187–256 | 3 h 58 min |
| So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish | 1984 | 196 | 152–224 | 3 h 27 min |
| The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | 1984 | 215 | 98–325 | 3 h 47 min |
| Mostly Harmless | 1992 | 235 | 219–288 | 4 h 09 min |
| The Salmon of Doubt | 1996 | 299 | 287–336 | 5 h 16 min |
| The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | 1996 | 815 | 815–832 | 14 h 22 min |
| Life, the Universe and Everything | 1999 | 216 | 161–240 | 3 h 48 min |
| Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | 2001 | 306 | 247–310 | 5 h 24 min |
| The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul | 2006 | 282 | 211–319 | 4 h 58 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)).