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Author · born 3 July 1883 · died 3 June 1924

Franz Kafka books: page counts

7 books by Franz Kafka with enough editions on Open Library to give a reliable page count.

Books
7
with page data
Longest
519
Tagebücher
Shortest
78
Metamorphosis

Pages per book

Median page count, in order of first publication.

Amerika288Letters to Milena238Metamorphosis78Short Stories271Tagebücher519The Castle416The Trial281
Amerika288Letters to Milena238Metamorphosis78Short Stories271Tagebücher519The Castle416The Trial281
Open Library edition records.

Every book

BookFirst publishedMedian pagesRangeReading time
Amerika–288216–3015 h 05 min
Letters to Milena–238188–3204 h 35 min
Metamorphosis–7844–1941 h 22 min
Short Stories–271208–5124 h 47 min
Tagebücher–519334–74610 h
The Castle–416279–5437 h 20 min
The Trial–281140–4544 h 57 min

Reading all 7 takes about 38 h 06 min at average speed (2,091 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)).