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Author · born 6 February 1955

Michael Pollan books: page counts

3 books by Michael Pollan with enough editions on Open Library to give a reliable page count.

Books
3
with page data
Longest
450
The Omnivore's Dilemma
Shortest
244
In Defense of Food

Pages per book

Median page count, in order of first publication.

The Botany of Desire (2001)291The Omnivore's Dilemma (2006)450In Defense of Food (2008)244
The Botany of Desire…291The Omnivore's Dilem…450In Defense of Food (…244
Open Library edition records.

Every book

BookFirst publishedMedian pagesRangeReading time
The Botany of Desire2001291208–3555 h 36 min
The Omnivore's Dilemma2006450298–7118 h 40 min
In Defense of Food2008244242–3304 h 42 min

Reading all 3 takes about 18 h 58 min at average speed (985 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)).