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Author · born 11 November 1821 · died 9 February 1881

Fiódor Dostoievski books: page counts

10 books by Fiódor Dostoievski with enough editions on Open Library to give a reliable page count.

Books
10
with page data
Longest
822
The brothers Karamazov
Shortest
145
Notes from the Underground

Pages per book

Median page count, in order of first publication.

Crime and Punishment (1884)520The House of the Dead (1886)320The Possessed (1913)702White Nights (1923)302The Idiot (1931)615Dostoyevsky (1961)239Gambler (1999)162Notes from the Underground (2000)145The brothers Karamazov822White Nights and Other Stories324
Crime and Punishment…520The House of the Dea…320The Possessed (1913)702White Nights (1923)302The Idiot (1931)615Dostoyevsky (1961)239Gambler (1999)162Notes from the Under…145The brothers Karamaz…822White Nights and Oth…324
Open Library edition records.

Every book

BookFirst publishedMedian pagesRangeReading time
Crime and Punishment1884520258–8349 h 10 min
The House of the Dead1886320247–4005 h 38 min
The Possessed1913702608–84212 h 22 min
White Nights1923302180–5265 h 19 min
The Idiot1931616280–78410 h 51 min
Dostoyevsky1961240237–2424 h 13 min
Gambler199916280–3442 h 51 min
Notes from the Underground200014576–2622 h 33 min
The brothers Karamazov–822377–1,10414 h 29 min
White Nights and Other Stories–324136–5265 h 43 min

Reading all 10 takes about 73 h 12 min at average speed (4,152 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)).