Author · born 2 August 1924 · died 30 November 1987
James Baldwin books: page counts
7 books by James Baldwin with enough editions on Open Library to give a reliable page count.
Books
7
with page data
Longest
366
Another Country
Shortest
120
The Fire Next Time
Pages per book
Median page count, in order of first publication.
Every book
| Book | First published | Median pages | Range | Reading time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Notes of a Native Son | 1955 | 170 | 149–208 | 3 h 16 min |
| Another Country | 1962 | 366 | 338–436 | 6 h 27 min |
| The Fire Next Time | 1962 | 120 | 89–167 | 2 h 07 min |
| Blues For Mister Charlie | 1970 | 144 | 121–158 | 2 h 32 min |
| If Beale Street Could Talk | 1986 | 224 | 173–242 | 3 h 57 min |
| Giovanni's Room | 1993 | 224 | 127–248 | 3 h 57 min |
| Go Tell It on the Mountain | 1993 | 232 | 191–378 | 4 h 05 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)).