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Author · born 19 October 1946

Philip Pullman books: page counts

6 books by Philip Pullman with enough editions on Open Library to give a reliable page count.

Books
6
with page data
Longest
1,017
His Dark Materials
Shortest
112
The Firework-maker's Daughter

Pages per book

Median page count, in order of first publication.

The Ruby in the Smoke (1985)230The Firework-maker's Daughter (1995)112Northern Lights (1999)399The Amber Spyglass (2000)544The Subtle Knife (2002)352His Dark Materials (2007)1,017
The Ruby in the Smok…230The Firework-maker's…112Northern Lights (199…399The Amber Spyglass (…544The Subtle Knife (20…352His Dark Materials (…1,017
Open Library edition records.

Every book

BookFirst publishedMedian pagesRangeReading time
The Ruby in the Smoke1985230200–2564 h 03 min
The Firework-maker's Daughter199511297–1281 h 58 min
Northern Lights1999399351–5747 h 02 min
The Amber Spyglass2000544352–7199 h 35 min
The Subtle Knife2002352256–4936 h 12 min
His Dark Materials20071,017544–1,31217 h 56 min

Reading all 6 takes about 46 h 47 min at average speed (2,654 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)).