Author · born 8 January 1942 · died 14 March 2018
Stephen Hawking books: page counts
5 books by Stephen Hawking with enough editions on Open Library to give a reliable page count.
Books
5
with page data
Longest
256
Brief Answers to the Big Questions
Shortest
132
The Theory of Everything
Pages per book
Median page count, in order of first publication.
Every book
| Book | First published | Median pages | Range | Reading time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Brief History of Time | 1988 | 212 | 192–301 | 4 h 04 min |
| Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays | 1993 | 182 | 172–277 | 3 h 30 min |
| The Theory of Everything | 2002 | 132 | 100–176 | 2 h 33 min |
| A Briefer History of Time | 2005 | 176 | 162–272 | 3 h 23 min |
| Brief Answers to the Big Questions | – | 256 | 224–316 | 4 h 56 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)).