Book · by Hanya Yanagihara
How many pages is A Little Life?
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara has a median of 736 pages across 6 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 736 to 748 pages.
Median pages
736
6 editions counted
Range
724–816
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
13h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
202k
at 275 words per page
How long will A Little Life take you?
Reading time
12 h 58 min
At 30 min a day
26 days
At 1 hour a day
13 days
Page count of every edition, by year
Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.
Editions counted
The 6 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 38 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Pan Macmillan | – | 752 | OL60834037M |
| 2022 | Pan Macmillan | – | 736 | OL33916512M |
| 2020 | Pan Macmillan | – | 736 | OL29535478M |
| 2016 | Picador | Paperback | 736 | OL26433767M |
| 2016 | Anchor Books | Trade Paperback | 816 | OL26433188M |
| 2015 | Doubleday | Hardcover | 724 | OL32831159M |
Questions
- How many pages is A Little Life?
- About 736 pages: that is the median of 6 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 724 to 816 pages.
- How long does it take to read A Little Life?
- About 12 h 58 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 26 days.
- How many words is A Little Life?
- Roughly 202,000 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)).