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How many pages is A Good Girl's Guide to Murder?

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson has a median of 409 pages across 6 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 400 to 428 pages.

Median pages
409
6 editions counted
Range
390–448
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
7.2h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
112k
at 275 words per page

How long will A Good Girl's Guide to Murder take you?

Starts at the fiction average of 260 words per minute and 275 words per page. Move the slider to your own speed.

Reading time
7 h 13 min
At 30 min a day
15 days
At 1 hour a day
8 days

Page count of every edition, by year

Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.

4004254502020202220242019: 448 pages2019: 390 pages2020: 400 pages2020: 400 pages2023: 432 pages2025: 418 pagesmedian 409
4004254502020202220242019: 448 pages2019: 390 pages2020: 400 pages2020: 400 pages2023: 432 pages2025: 418 pagesmedian 409
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 6 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 38 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2025Delacorte Press–418OL60608485M
2023HarperCollins PublishersHardcover432OL48187138M
2020Random House Children's Books–400OL29821616M
2020Random House Children's Books–400OL28033039M
2019Egmont Books, Limited–448OL28726033M
2019Delacorte PressHardcover390OL27915101M

Questions

How many pages is A Good Girl's Guide to Murder?
About 409 pages: that is the median of 6 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 390 to 448 pages.
How long does it take to read A Good Girl's Guide to Murder?
About 7 h 13 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 15 days.
How many words is A Good Girl's Guide to Murder?
Roughly 112,000 words, estimated from the median page count at 275 words per page. Open Library does not record word counts, so this is an estimate.

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)).