Author · born 21 September 1866 · died 13 August 1946
H. G. Wells books: page counts
9 books by H. G. Wells with enough editions on Open Library to give a reliable page count.
Books
9
with page data
Longest
341
A Modern Utopia
Shortest
122
The Time Machine
Pages per book
Median page count, in order of first publication.
Every book
| Book | First published | Median pages | Range | Reading time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Invisible Man | 1897 | 178 | 79–329 | 3 h 08 min |
| A Modern Utopia | – | 341 | 168–514 | 6 h 34 min |
| The First Men in the Moon | – | 240 | 113–376 | 4 h 14 min |
| The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth | – | 300 | 157–359 | 5 h 17 min |
| The Island of Dr. Moreau | – | 168 | 90–289 | 2 h 58 min |
| The Time Machine | – | 122 | 59–268 | 2 h 09 min |
| The War of the Worlds | – | 221 | 110–462 | 3 h 54 min |
| The World Set Free | – | 248 | 128–431 | 4 h 22 min |
| When the Sleeper Awakes | – | 278 | 137–465 | 4 h 54 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)).