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Author · born 19 Jan 1921 · died 4 Feb 1995

Patricia Highsmith books: page counts

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

Books
3
with page data
Longest
288
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Shortest
256
Strangers On a Train

Pages per book

Median page count, in order of first publication.

The Talented Mr. Ripley (1973)287The Price of Salt (1993)276Strangers On a Train256
The Talented Mr. Rip…287The Price of Salt (1…276Strangers On a Train256
Open Library edition records.

Every book

BookFirst publishedMedian pagesRangeReading time
The Talented Mr. Ripley1973288136–3925 h 04 min
The Price of Salt1993276212–3524 h 52 min
Strangers On a Train–256255–3224 h 31 min

Reading all 3 takes about 14 h 27 min at average speed (820 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)).