Love Books Daily

Author · born 21 July 1899 · died 2 July 1961

Ernest Hemingway books: page counts

9 books by Ernest Hemingway with enough editions on Open Library to give a reliable page count.

Books
9
with page data
Longest
499
The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
Shortest
127
The Old Man and the Sea

Pages per book

Median page count, in order of first publication.

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1964)471The Sun Also Rises (1982)250A Farewell to Arms332A Moveable Feast211Men Without Women162The Old Man and the Sea127The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway499The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories154To Have and Have Not262
For Whom the Bell To…471The Sun Also Rises (…250A Farewell to Arms332A Moveable Feast211Men Without Women162The Old Man and the …127The Short Stories of…499The Snows of Kiliman…154To Have and Have Not262
Open Library edition records.

Every book

BookFirst publishedMedian pagesRangeReading time
For Whom the Bell Tolls1964471227–6928 h 18 min
The Sun Also Rises1982250132–4084 h 25 min
A Farewell to Arms–332182–4155 h 51 min
A Moveable Feast–211160–2404 h 04 min
Men Without Women–162131–2462 h 51 min
The Old Man and the Sea–12781–1852 h 14 min
The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway–499272–6788 h 48 min
The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories–154133–1662 h 43 min
To Have and Have Not–262174–2794 h 37 min

Reading all 9 takes about 43 h 52 min at average speed (2,468 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)).