Author · born 27 February 1902 · died 20 December 1968

John Steinbeck books: page counts

11 books by John Steinbeck with enough editions on Open Library to give a reliable page count.

Books

with page data

Longest

602

East of Eden

Shortest

112

The Pearl

Pages per book

Median page count, in order of first publication.

Open Library edition records.

Every book

Book	First published	Median pages	Range	Reading time
Tortilla Flat	1935	241	151–334	4 h 15 min
Of Mice and Men	1937	118	54–214	2 h 05 min
The Red Pony	1937	120	58–209	2 h 07 min
The Grapes of Wrath	1939	544	300–908	9 h 35 min
The Moon is Down	1942	142	101–208	2 h 30 min
Cannery Row	1945	186	130–244	3 h 17 min
Of Mice and Men & Cannery Row	1947	264	224–286	4 h 39 min
East of Eden	1952	602	436–891	10 h 37 min
The Winter of Our Discontent	1961	294	276–407	5 h 11 min
Travels with Charley	1962	254	210–330	4 h 29 min
The Pearl	–	112	55–181	1 h 59 min

Reading all 11 takes about 50 h 44 min at average speed (2,878 pages).