Author · born 8 October 1920 · died 11 February 1986
Frank Herbert books: page counts
6 books by Frank Herbert with enough editions on Open Library to give a reliable page count.
Books
6
with page data
Longest
535
Dune
Shortest
256
Dune Messiah
Pages per book
Median page count, in order of first publication.
Every book
| Book | First published | Median pages | Range | Reading time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chapterhouse Dune | – | 464 | 432–512 | 8 h 11 min |
| Children of Dune | – | 432 | 408–624 | 7 h 37 min |
| Dune | – | 535 | 412–896 | 9 h 26 min |
| Dune Messiah | – | 256 | 181–352 | 4 h 31 min |
| God Emperor of Dune | – | 423 | 349–608 | 7 h 27 min |
| Heretics of Dune | – | 494 | 480–560 | 8 h 42 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)).