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Author · born 1918 · died 1988

Richard Phillips Feynman books: page counts

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

Books
5
with page data
Longest
350
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman"
Shortest
146
Six Easy Pieces

Pages per book

Median page count, in order of first publication.

QED (1985)170The Pleasure of Finding Things Out (1999)270"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman"350Six Easy Pieces145What Do You Care What Other People Think?256
QED (1985)170The Pleasure of Find…270"Surely You're Jokin…350Six Easy Pieces145What Do You Care Wha…256
Open Library edition records.

Every book

BookFirst publishedMedian pagesRangeReading time
QED1985170152–1933 h 17 min
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out1999270270–2705 h 12 min
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman"–350322–4006 h 44 min
Six Easy Pieces–146144–1922 h 48 min
What Do You Care What Other People Think?–256255–3424 h 56 min

Reading all 5 takes about 22 h 57 min at average speed (1,192 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)).