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Author · born 1942

Samuel R. Delany books: page counts

3 books by Samuel R. Delany with enough editions on Open Library to give a reliable page count.

Books
3
with page data
Longest
879
Dhalgren
Shortest
192
Babel-17

Pages per book

Median page count, in order of first publication.

Babel-17192Dhalgren879Hogg219
Babel-17192Dhalgren879Hogg219
Open Library edition records.

Every book

BookFirst publishedMedian pagesRangeReading time
Babel-17–192158–3363 h 23 min
Dhalgren–879801–87915 h 30 min
Hogg–219219–3003 h 52 min

Reading all 3 takes about 22 h 44 min at average speed (1,290 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)).