Love Books Daily

Author · born 11 November 1922 · died 11 April 2007

Kurt Vonnegut books: page counts

9 books by Kurt Vonnegut with enough editions on Open Library to give a reliable page count.

Books
9
with page data
Longest
319
The Sirens of Titan
Shortest
186
Slaughterhouse-Five

Pages per book

Median page count, in order of first publication.

Breakfast of Champions303Cat's Cradle231Galápagos295God bless you, Mr. Rosewater203Mother Night202Player Piano308Slaughterhouse-Five186The Sirens of Titan319Welcome to the Monkey House308
Breakfast of Champio…303Cat's Cradle231Galápagos295God bless you, Mr. R…203Mother Night202Player Piano308Slaughterhouse-Five186The Sirens of Titan319Welcome to the Monke…308
Open Library edition records.

Every book

BookFirst publishedMedian pagesRangeReading time
Breakfast of Champions–303239–3225 h 20 min
Cat's Cradle–231179–2894 h 04 min
Galápagos–295184–3425 h 12 min
God bless you, Mr. Rosewater–203167–2883 h 35 min
Mother Night–202174–2963 h 34 min
Player Piano–308233–3525 h 26 min
Slaughterhouse-Five–186156–2753 h 17 min
The Sirens of Titan–319223–3265 h 37 min
Welcome to the Monkey House–308285–4165 h 26 min

Reading all 9 takes about 41 h 31 min at average speed (2,355 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)).