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Robin McKinley books: page counts

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

Books
3
with page data
Longest
272
The Blue Sword
Shortest
246
The Hero and the Crown

Pages per book

Median page count, in order of first publication.

Beauty (1978)247The Blue Sword272The Hero and the Crown246
Beauty (1978)247The Blue Sword272The Hero and the Cro…246
Open Library edition records.

Every book

BookFirst publishedMedian pagesRangeReading time
Beauty1978247247–3254 h 21 min
The Blue Sword–272248–3204 h 48 min
The Hero and the Crown–246227–2924 h 20 min

Reading all 3 takes about 13 h 29 min at average speed (765 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)).