Author · born June 22, 1947 · died February 24, 2006
Octavia E. Butler books: page counts
6 books by Octavia E. Butler with enough editions on Open Library to give a reliable page count.
Books
6
with page data
Longest
424
Parable of the Talents
Shortest
256
Dawn
Pages per book
Median page count, in order of first publication.
Every book
| Book | First published | Median pages | Range | Reading time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kindred | 1979 | 287 | 264–304 | 5 h 04 min |
| Wild Seed | 1980 | 279 | 248–306 | 4 h 55 min |
| Dawn | 1987 | 256 | 248–522 | 4 h 31 min |
| Adulthood Rites | 1988 | 288 | 277–304 | 5 h 05 min |
| Parable of the Sower | 1993 | 299 | 266–368 | 5 h 16 min |
| Parable of the Talents | 1998 | 424 | 365–448 | 7 h 28 min |
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)).