Author · born 14 Dec 1916 · died 8 Aug 1965
Shirley Jackson books: page counts
3 books by Shirley Jackson with enough editions on Open Library to give a reliable page count.
Books
3
with page data
Longest
306
The Lottery and Other Stories
Shortest
190
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Pages per book
Median page count, in order of first publication.
Every book
| Book | First published | Median pages | Range | Reading time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| We Have Always Lived in the Castle | 1962 | 190 | 158–214 | 3 h 21 min |
| The Lottery and Other Stories | 1991 | 306 | 222–320 | 5 h 24 min |
| The Haunting of Hill House | 2002 | 246 | 174–325 | 4 h 20 min |
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)).