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Author · born 1933 · died 2018

Philip Roth books: page counts

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

Books
3
with page data
Longest
423
American Pastoral
Shortest
288
Portnoy's Complaint

Pages per book

Median page count, in order of first publication.

American Pastoral423Portnoy's Complaint288The Plot Against America400
American Pastoral423Portnoy's Complaint288The Plot Against Ame…400
Open Library edition records.

Every book

BookFirst publishedMedian pagesRangeReading time
American Pastoral–423423–4487 h 27 min
Portnoy's Complaint–288248–3225 h 05 min
The Plot Against America–400391–7237 h 03 min

Reading all 3 takes about 19 h 36 min at average speed (1,112 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)).