Book · by Bill Bryson
How many pages is A Short History of Nearly Everything?
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson has a median of 552 pages across 14 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 544 to 624 pages.
How long will A Short History of Nearly Everything take you?
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 14 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 57 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Black Swan | – | 672 | OL28595264M |
| 2006 | Anchor Canada | – | 624 | OL7441792M |
| 2005 | Broadway Books | – | 624 | OL24371703M |
| 2005 | Broadway Books | – | 624 | OL3437280M |
| 2004 | Broadway Books | – | 544 | OL24836928M |
| 2004 | Broadway Books | – | 544 | OL23115638M |
| 2004 | Anchor Canada | – | 544 | OL20324099M |
| 2004 | Black Swan | Paperback | 688 | OL25129687M |
| 2004 | Broadway Books | – | 544 | OL40261198M |
| 2003 | Broadway Books | – | 560 | OL49640351M |
| 2003 | Doubleday | hardcover | 500 | OL32236394M |
| 2003 | Broadway Books | Hardcover | 544 | OL3684559M |
| 2003 | Random House Large Print | – | 939 | OL15564370M |
| 2003 | Doubleday Canada | – | 544 | OL21152230M |
More by Bill Bryson
- 320 pagesA Walk in the Woods
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- 586 pagesAt Home
- 324 pagesNotes from a Small Island
- 270 pagesThe Mother Tongue
- 335 pagesIn a Sunburned Country
All 8 books by Bill Bryson with page counts
Questions
- How many pages is A Short History of Nearly Everything?
- About 552 pages: that is the median of 14 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 500 to 939 pages.
- How long does it take to read A Short History of Nearly Everything?
- About 10 h 38 min at 238 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 22 days.
- How many words is A Short History of Nearly Everything?
- Roughly 152,000 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)).