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Author · born 1931 · died 2018

Tom Wolfe books: page counts

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

Books
3
with page data
Longest
668
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Shortest
368
The Right Stuff

Pages per book

Median page count, in order of first publication.

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968)416The Right Stuff (1979)368The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987)668
The Electric Kool-Ai…416The Right Stuff (197…368The Bonfire of the V…668
Open Library edition records.

Every book

BookFirst publishedMedian pagesRangeReading time
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test1968416368–4347 h 20 min
The Right Stuff1979368304–7017 h 05 min
The Bonfire of the Vanities1987668552–99211 h 47 min

Reading all 3 takes about 26 h 12 min at average speed (1,452 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)).