Author · born 5 December 1934 · died 23 December 2021
Joan Didion books: page counts
3 books by Joan Didion with enough editions on Open Library to give a reliable page count.
Books
3
with page data
Longest
238
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Shortest
214
Play It as It Lays
Pages per book
Median page count, in order of first publication.
Every book
| Book | First published | Median pages | Range | Reading time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Play It as It Lays | – | 214 | 168–226 | 3 h 46 min |
| Slouching Towards Bethlehem | – | 238 | 191–354 | 4 h 35 min |
| The White Album | – | 222 | 221–224 | 4 h 17 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)).