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Author · born 22 August 1920 · died 5 June 2012

Ray Bradbury books: page counts

9 books by Ray Bradbury with enough editions on Open Library to give a reliable page count.

Books
9
with page data
Longest
305
I Sing the Body Electric!
Shortest
160
The Halloween Tree

Pages per book

Median page count, in order of first publication.

Dandelion Wine239Fahrenheit 451172I Sing the Body Electric!305Something Wicked This Way Comes282The Halloween Tree160The Illustrated Man192The Martian Chronicles222The October Country291Zen in the Art of Writing176
Dandelion Wine239Fahrenheit 451172I Sing the Body Elec…305Something Wicked Thi…282The Halloween Tree160The Illustrated Man192The Martian Chronicl…222The October Country291Zen in the Art of Wr…176
Open Library edition records.

Every book

BookFirst publishedMedian pagesRangeReading time
Dandelion Wine–239184–3344 h 13 min
Fahrenheit 451–17296–2533 h 02 min
I Sing the Body Electric!–305274–3365 h 23 min
Something Wicked This Way Comes–282215–3524 h 59 min
The Halloween Tree–160126–1922 h 49 min
The Illustrated Man–192186–3843 h 23 min
The Martian Chronicles–222180–3363 h 55 min
The October Country–291158–3375 h 08 min
Zen in the Art of Writing–176154–1913 h 23 min

Reading all 9 takes about 36 h 14 min at average speed (2,040 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)).