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Author · born 1 January 1919 · died 27 January 2010

J. D. Salinger books: page counts

3 books by J. D. Salinger with enough editions on Open Library to give a reliable page count.

Books
3
with page data
Longest
218
The Catcher in the Rye
Shortest
198
Nine Stories

Pages per book

Median page count, in order of first publication.

The Catcher in the Rye (1945)218Nine Stories (1953)198Franny and Zooey (1961)202
The Catcher in the R…218Nine Stories (1953)198Franny and Zooey (19…202
Open Library edition records.

Every book

BookFirst publishedMedian pagesRangeReading time
The Catcher in the Rye1945218136–3473 h 51 min
Nine Stories1953198144–3203 h 29 min
Franny and Zooey1961202132–2103 h 34 min

Reading all 3 takes about 10 h 54 min at average speed (618 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)).