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Author · born 27 Aug 1929 · died 1 Nov 2007

Ira Levin books: page counts

4 books by Ira Levin with enough editions on Open Library to give a reliable page count.

Books
4
with page data
Longest
288
A Kiss Before Dying
Shortest
159
The Stepford Wives

Pages per book

Median page count, in order of first publication.

A Kiss Before Dying (1953)288Rosemary's Baby (1967)256The Stepford Wives (1972)159The Boys from Brazil (1976)280
A Kiss Before Dying …288Rosemary's Baby (196…256The Stepford Wives (…159The Boys from Brazil…280
Open Library edition records.

Every book

BookFirst publishedMedian pagesRangeReading time
A Kiss Before Dying1953288230–4245 h 05 min
Rosemary's Baby1967256205–3484 h 31 min
The Stepford Wives1972159116–3002 h 48 min
The Boys from Brazil1976280209–4564 h 56 min

Reading all 4 takes about 17 h 20 min at average speed (983 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)).