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Orson Scott Card books: page counts

8 books by Orson Scott Card with enough editions on Open Library to give a reliable page count.

Books
8
with page data
Longest
512
Xenocide
Shortest
328
Ender's Game

Pages per book

Median page count, in order of first publication.

Children of the Mind361Ender's Game327Ender's Shadow384Shadow Puppets352Shadow of the Giant384Shadow of the Hegemon384Speaker for the Dead415Xenocide512
Children of the Mind361Ender's Game327Ender's Shadow384Shadow Puppets352Shadow of the Giant384Shadow of the Hegemon384Speaker for the Dead415Xenocide512
Open Library edition records.

Every book

BookFirst publishedMedian pagesRangeReading time
Children of the Mind–361349–4006 h 22 min
Ender's Game–328226–3945 h 46 min
Ender's Shadow–384379–5596 h 46 min
Shadow Puppets–352348–3846 h 12 min
Shadow of the Giant–384367–3886 h 46 min
Shadow of the Hegemon–384365–4646 h 46 min
Speaker for the Dead–415280–4327 h 19 min
Xenocide–512394–6089 h 02 min

Reading all 8 takes about 55 h at average speed (3,120 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)).