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Author · born 15 May 1856 · died 6 May 1919

L. Frank Baum books: page counts

8 books by L. Frank Baum with enough editions on Open Library to give a reliable page count.

Books
8
with page data
Longest
176
The Marvelous Land of Oz
Shortest
98
The Complete Life and Adventures of Sant

Pages per book

Median page count, in order of first publication.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1899)159Ozma of Oz (1907)128Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz (1908)134Tik-Tok of Oz (1914)154The Marvelous Land of Oz (1969)176The Road to Oz (1979)136The Sea Fairies (1988)130The Complete Life and Adventures of Santa Clau…98
The Wonderful Wizard…159Ozma of Oz (1907)128Dorothy and the Wiza…134Tik-Tok of Oz (1914)154The Marvelous Land o…176The Road to Oz (1979)136The Sea Fairies (198…130The Complete Life an…98
Open Library edition records.

Every book

BookFirst publishedMedian pagesRangeReading time
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz189915974–3202 h 48 min
Ozma of Oz190712860–2642 h 15 min
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz190813462–2882 h 22 min
Tik-Tok of Oz191415474–3362 h 43 min
The Marvelous Land of Oz196917680–3793 h 06 min
The Road to Oz197913662–2842 h 24 min
The Sea Fairies198813062–2862 h 18 min
The Complete Life and Adventures of Santa Claus20029846–2101 h 44 min

Reading all 8 takes about 19 h 39 min at average speed (1,115 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)).