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Author · born 21 October 1929 · died 22 January 2018

Ursula K. Le Guin books: page counts

10 books by Ursula K. Le Guin with enough editions on Open Library to give a reliable page count.

Books
10
with page data
Longest
328
The Dispossessed
Shortest
40
Catwings

Pages per book

Median page count, in order of first publication.

The Dispossessed (1974)327A Wizard of Earthsea197Catwings40Tales from Earthsea317The Farthest Shore214The Lathe of Heaven184The Left Hand of Darkness288The Tombs of Atuan160The Wind's Twelve Quarters303The Word for World is Forest169
The Dispossessed (19…327A Wizard of Earthsea197Catwings40Tales from Earthsea317The Farthest Shore214The Lathe of Heaven184The Left Hand of Dar…288The Tombs of Atuan160The Wind's Twelve Qu…303The Word for World i…169
Open Library edition records.

Every book

BookFirst publishedMedian pagesRangeReading time
The Dispossessed1974328311–4005 h 46 min
A Wizard of Earthsea–197182–3283 h 28 min
Catwings–4039–4842 min
Tales from Earthsea–317280–3365 h 35 min
The Farthest Shore–214197–3893 h 46 min
The Lathe of Heaven–184175–1923 h 15 min
The Left Hand of Darkness–288213–3455 h 05 min
The Tombs of Atuan–160146–3202 h 49 min
The Wind's Twelve Quarters–303138–3835 h 20 min
The Word for World is Forest–169128–1922 h 59 min

Reading all 10 takes about 38 h 46 min at average speed (2,200 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)).