Author · born 25 September 1897 · died 6 July 1962
William Faulkner books: page counts
4 books by William Faulkner with enough editions on Open Library to give a reliable page count.
Books
4
with page data
Longest
480
Light in August
Shortest
250
As I Lay Dying
Pages per book
Median page count, in order of first publication.
Every book
| Book | First published | Median pages | Range | Reading time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Absalom, Absalom! | – | 378 | 198–496 | 6 h 40 min |
| As I Lay Dying | – | 250 | 182–485 | 4 h 24 min |
| Light in August | – | 480 | 378–565 | 8 h 28 min |
| The Sound and the Fury | – | 373 | 224–544 | 6 h 35 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)).