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Author · born 31 October 1959

Neal Stephenson books: page counts

5 books by Neal Stephenson with enough editions on Open Library to give a reliable page count.

Books
5
with page data
Longest
936
Quicksilver
Shortest
308
Zodiac

Pages per book

Median page count, in order of first publication.

Cryptonomicon918Quicksilver935Snow Crash448The Diamond Age499Zodiac308
Cryptonomicon918Quicksilver935Snow Crash448The Diamond Age499Zodiac308
Open Library edition records.

Every book

BookFirst publishedMedian pagesRangeReading time
Cryptonomicon–918918–1,16816 h 11 min
Quicksilver–936927–96816 h 29 min
Snow Crash–448214–4707 h 54 min
The Diamond Age–499455–4998 h 48 min
Zodiac–308283–3205 h 26 min

Reading all 5 takes about 54 h 48 min at average speed (3,108 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)).