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How many pages is A Painted House?

A Painted House by John Grisham has a median of 465 pages across 15 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 388 to 480 pages.

Median pages
465
15 editions counted
Range
384–642
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
8.2h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
128k
at 275 words per page

How long will A Painted House take you?

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Reading time
8 h 12 min
At 30 min a day
17 days
At 1 hour a day
9 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

4005006002000200520102000: 388 pages2001: 562 pages2001: 480 pages2001: 388 pages2001: 480 pages2001: 642 pages2001: 388 pages2001: 388 pages2001: 400 pages2001: 576 pages2002: 465 pages2004: 384 pages2007: 480 pages2012: 465 pages2013: 480 pagesmedian 465
4005006002000200520102000: 388 pages2001: 562 pages2001: 480 pages2001: 388 pages2001: 480 pages2001: 642 pages2001: 388 pages2001: 388 pages2001: 400 pages2001: 576 pages2002: 465 pages2004: 384 pages2007: 480 pages2012: 465 pages2013: 480 pagesmedian 465
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 15 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 59 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2013Penguin Random House–480OL28437413M
2012Dell–465OL26283483M
2007Arrow Books Ltd–480OL7317537M
2004Delta–384OL7439419M
2002Dell–465OL18384124M
2001Random House Large Print–562OL6796463M
2001Tandem Library–480OL7600186M
2001QPD–388OL18899600M

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Questions

How many pages is A Painted House?
About 465 pages: that is the median of 15 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 384 to 642 pages.
How long does it take to read A Painted House?
About 8 h 12 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 17 days.
How many words is A Painted House?
Roughly 128,000 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)).