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Author · born February 7, 1867 · died February 10, 1957

Laura Ingalls Wilder books: page counts

10 books by Laura Ingalls Wilder with enough editions on Open Library to give a reliable page count.

Books
10
with page data
Longest
372
Farmer Boy
Shortest
101
On the Way Home

Pages per book

Median page count, in order of first publication.

Little Town on the Prairie (1941)304The First Four Years (1953)147On the Way Home (1962)101These Happy Golden Years (1971)301Farmer Boy (1990)372The Long Winter (1999)334By the Shores of Silver Lake (2003)290Little House on the Prairie (2003)334On the Banks of Plum Creek (2003)338Little House in the Big Woods (2005)218
Little Town on the P…304The First Four Years…147On the Way Home (196…101These Happy Golden Y…301Farmer Boy (1990)372The Long Winter (199…334By the Shores of Sil…290Little House on the …334On the Banks of Plum…338Little House in the …218
Open Library edition records.

Every book

BookFirst publishedMedian pagesRangeReading time
Little Town on the Prairie1941304222–3745 h 22 min
The First Four Years1953147112–1622 h 50 min
On the Way Home1962101101–1201 h 47 min
These Happy Golden Years1971302237–3895 h 48 min
Farmer Boy1990372174–3986 h 33 min
The Long Winter1999334252–4645 h 54 min
By the Shores of Silver Lake2003290220–3575 h 07 min
Little House on the Prairie2003334156–3685 h 54 min
On the Banks of Plum Creek2003338214–3585 h 58 min
Little House in the Big Woods2005218100–2623 h 51 min

Reading all 10 takes about 49 h 03 min at average speed (2,741 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)).