Book · by Fredrik Backman
How many pages is A Man Called Ove?
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman has a median of 320 pages across 8 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 302 to 383 pages.
Median pages
320
8 editions counted
Range
295–477
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
5.6h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
88k
at 275 words per page
How long will A Man Called Ove take you?
Reading time
5 h 39 min
At 30 min a day
12 days
At 1 hour a day
6 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 8 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 40 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | – | – | 475 | OL27212566M |
| 2015 | Sceptre | Paperback | 295 | OL27919753M |
| 2014 | Atria Books | – | 337 | OL25936999M |
| 2014 | Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning | Paperback | 477 | OL31028396M |
| 2014 | Hodder & Stoughton | – | 304 | OL34496079M |
| 2014 | Atria Books | – | 352 | OL29685574M |
| 2014 | Hodder & Stoughton | – | 295 | OL34745031M |
| 2014 | Hodder & Stoughton | – | 304 | OL34495790M |
Questions
- How many pages is A Man Called Ove?
- About 320 pages: that is the median of 8 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 295 to 477 pages.
- How long does it take to read A Man Called Ove?
- About 5 h 39 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 12 days.
- How many words is A Man Called Ove?
- Roughly 88,000 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)).