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Margaret Atwood books: page counts

10 books by Margaret Atwood with enough editions on Open Library to give a reliable page count.

Books
10
with page data
Longest
641
The Blind Assassin
Shortest
199
Surfacing

Pages per book

Median page count, in order of first publication.

Cat's Eye445Oryx and Crake386Surfacing199The Blind Assassin641The Edible Woman287The Handmaid's Tale336The Penelopiad199The Testaments432The Year of the Flood441alias Grace545
Cat's Eye445Oryx and Crake386Surfacing199The Blind Assassin641The Edible Woman287The Handmaid's Tale336The Penelopiad199The Testaments432The Year of the Flood441alias Grace545
Open Library edition records.

Every book

BookFirst publishedMedian pagesRangeReading time
Cat's Eye–446256–5787 h 51 min
Oryx and Crake–386376–5716 h 49 min
Surfacing–199186–2823 h 30 min
The Blind Assassin–641521–81911 h 18 min
The Edible Woman–287281–3865 h 04 min
The Handmaid's Tale–336214–5315 h 55 min
The Penelopiad–199144–2243 h 30 min
The Testaments–432320–5627 h 37 min
The Year of the Flood–441432–4487 h 46 min
alias Grace–545468–6649 h 36 min

Reading all 10 takes about 68 h 58 min at average speed (3,912 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)).