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Author · born 1888 · died 1959

Raymond Chandler books: page counts

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

Books
3
with page data
Longest
319
The Long Goodbye
Shortest
231
The Big Sleep

Pages per book

Median page count, in order of first publication.

The Big Sleep (1939)231Farewell, My Lovely (1940)275The Long Goodbye319
The Big Sleep (1939)231Farewell, My Lovely …275The Long Goodbye319
Open Library edition records.

Every book

BookFirst publishedMedian pagesRangeReading time
The Big Sleep1939231170–3234 h 04 min
Farewell, My Lovely1940275175–3964 h 51 min
The Long Goodbye–319256–3795 h 37 min

Reading all 3 takes about 14 h 33 min at average speed (825 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)).