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Author · born 19 October 1931 · died 12 December 2020

John le Carré books: page counts

3 books by John le Carré with enough editions on Open Library to give a reliable page count.

Books
3
with page data
Longest
480
The Night Manager
Shortest
240
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

Pages per book

Median page count, in order of first publication.

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963)240The Night Manager (1993)480Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy369
The Spy Who Came in …240The Night Manager (1…480Tinker Tailor Soldie…369
Open Library edition records.

Every book

BookFirst publishedMedian pagesRangeReading time
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold1963240128–4164 h 14 min
The Night Manager1993480300–7518 h 28 min
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy–369317–6606 h 30 min

Reading all 3 takes about 19 h 12 min at average speed (1,089 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)).