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Author · born 10 October 1924 · died 7 September 1994

James Clavell books: page counts

3 books by James Clavell with enough editions on Open Library to give a reliable page count.

Books
3
with page data
Longest
803
Shogun
Shortest
397
King Rat

Pages per book

Median page count, in order of first publication.

Tai-Pan (1966)594Shogun (1975)803King Rat (1986)397
Tai-Pan (1966)594Shogun (1975)803King Rat (1986)397
Open Library edition records.

Every book

BookFirst publishedMedian pagesRangeReading time
Tai-Pan1966594590–73610 h 28 min
Shogun1975803802–1,15214 h 09 min
King Rat1986397352–5767 h

Reading all 3 takes about 31 h 38 min at average speed (1,794 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)).