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Author · born 29 May 1874 · died 14 June 1936

Gilbert Keith Chesterton books: page counts

6 books by Gilbert Keith Chesterton with enough editions on Open Library to give a reliable page count.

Books
6
with page data
Longest
208
The Innocence of Father Brown
Shortest
130
The Club of Queer Trades

Pages per book

Median page count, in order of first publication.

Orthodoxy156The Club of Queer Trades130The Innocence of Father Brown208The Man Who Knew Too Much156The Man Who Was Thursday164The Napoleon of Notting Hill160
Orthodoxy156The Club of Queer Tr…130The Innocence of Fat…208The Man Who Knew Too…156The Man Who Was Thur…164The Napoleon of Nott…160
Open Library edition records.

Every book

BookFirst publishedMedian pagesRangeReading time
Orthodoxy–15672–3363 h
The Club of Queer Trades–13068–2752 h 18 min
The Innocence of Father Brown–208100–4483 h 40 min
The Man Who Knew Too Much–15682–3282 h 45 min
The Man Who Was Thursday–16478–3342 h 53 min
The Napoleon of Notting Hill–16090–3282 h 49 min

Reading all 6 takes about 17 h 26 min at average speed (974 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)).