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Richard Dawkins books: page counts

5 books by Richard Dawkins with enough editions on Open Library to give a reliable page count.

Books
5
with page data
Longest
673
The Ancestor's Tale
Shortest
272
The Magic of Reality

Pages per book

Median page count, in order of first publication.

The Blind Watchmaker (1990)363The Selfish Gene (1995)352The Ancestor's Tale (2004)673The God Delusion (2006)439The Magic of Reality272
The Blind Watchmaker…363The Selfish Gene (19…352The Ancestor's Tale …673The God Delusion (20…439The Magic of Reality272
Open Library edition records.

Every book

BookFirst publishedMedian pagesRangeReading time
The Blind Watchmaker1990363332–4966 h 59 min
The Selfish Gene1995352224–4966 h 47 min
The Ancestor's Tale2004673528–80012 h 58 min
The God Delusion2006440406–5808 h 28 min
The Magic of Reality–272271–2725 h 14 min

Reading all 5 takes about 40 h 26 min at average speed (2,100 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)).