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Author · born 18 February 1931 · died 5 August 2019

Toni Morrison books: page counts

6 books by Toni Morrison with enough editions on Open Library to give a reliable page count.

Books
6
with page data
Longest
341
Song of Solomon
Shortest
172
The Bluest Eye

Pages per book

Median page count, in order of first publication.

Beloved321God Help the Child200Jazz229Song of Solomon341Sula174The Bluest Eye172
Beloved321God Help the Child200Jazz229Song of Solomon341Sula174The Bluest Eye172
Open Library edition records.

Every book

BookFirst publishedMedian pagesRangeReading time
Beloved–321260–4725 h 40 min
God Help the Child–200178–4003 h 32 min
Jazz–229229–3154 h 02 min
Song of Solomon–341336–4906 h 01 min
Sula–174154–2403 h 04 min
The Bluest Eye–17280–2563 h 02 min

Reading all 6 takes about 25 h 20 min at average speed (1,438 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)).