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Author · born 20 May 1806 · died 8 May 1873

John Stuart Mill books: page counts

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

Books
3
with page data
Longest
640
Principles of Political Economy
Shortest
95
Utilitarianism

Pages per book

Median page count, in order of first publication.

On Liberty (1863)174Principles of Political Economy (1868)640Utilitarianism (1891)95
On Liberty (1863)174Principles of Politi…640Utilitarianism (1891)95
Open Library edition records.

Every book

BookFirst publishedMedian pagesRangeReading time
On Liberty186317489–3243 h 22 min
Principles of Political Economy1868640309–1,16612 h 19 min
Utilitarianism18919552–2041 h 50 min

Reading all 3 takes about 17 h 31 min at average speed (910 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)).