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Author · born 31 July 1919 · died 11 April 1987

Primo Levi books: page counts

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

Books
3
with page data
Longest
233
The Periodic Table
Shortest
159
Survival in Auschwitz

Pages per book

Median page count, in order of first publication.

Survival in Auschwitz159The Drowned and the Saved197The Periodic Table233
Survival in Auschwitz159The Drowned and the …197The Periodic Table233
Open Library edition records.

Every book

BookFirst publishedMedian pagesRangeReading time
Survival in Auschwitz–159116–2623 h 04 min
The Drowned and the Saved–198170–2563 h 48 min
The Periodic Table–233193–2564 h 06 min

Reading all 3 takes about 10 h 58 min at average speed (590 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)).