Author · born 16 February 1954 · died 9 June 2013
Iain Banks books: page counts
7 books by Iain Banks with enough editions on Open Library to give a reliable page count.
Books
7
with page data
Longest
534
The Algebraist
Shortest
184
The Wasp Factory
Pages per book
Median page count, in order of first publication.
Every book
| Book | First published | Median pages | Range | Reading time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Consider Phlebas | – | 471 | 467–497 | 8 h 18 min |
| Inversions | – | 352 | 336–416 | 6 h 12 min |
| Look to Windward | – | 369 | 357–483 | 6 h 30 min |
| The Algebraist | – | 534 | 434–544 | 9 h 25 min |
| The Player of Games | – | 314 | 293–502 | 5 h 33 min |
| The Wasp Factory | – | 184 | 184–256 | 3 h 15 min |
| Use of Weapons | – | 400 | 352–480 | 7 h 03 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)).