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Book · by George R. R. Martin · first published 2000

How many pages is A Storm of Swords?

A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin has a median of 976 pages across 9 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 976 to 1,136 pages.

Median pages
976
9 editions counted
Range
973–1,216
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
17h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
268k
at 275 words per page
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How long will A Storm of Swords take you?

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Reading time
17 h 12 min
At 30 min a day
35 days
At 1 hour a day
18 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

1,0001,1001,200200020052010201520202000: 973 pages2000: 976 pages2000: 976 pages2003: 1,216 pages2011: 976 pages2011: 992 pages2013: 1,216 pages2020: 1,136 pages2020: 976 pagesmedian 976
1,0001,1001,2002000201020202000: 973 pages2000: 976 pages2000: 976 pages2003: 1,216 pages2011: 976 pages2011: 992 pages2013: 1,216 pages2020: 1,136 pages2020: 976 pagesmedian 976
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 9 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 57 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2020Random House Publishing Group–1,136OL30196346M
2020HarperCollins Publishers–976OL29505188M
2013Bantam Books–1,216OL27105635M
2011HarperCollins Publishers Limited–976OL28476725M
2011Bantam BooksPaperback992OL7826549M
2003SpectraMass Market Paperback1,216OL7829769M
2000Bantam Books–973OL6793617M
2000HarperCollins Publishers–976OL7255734M

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Questions

How many pages is A Storm of Swords?
About 976 pages: that is the median of 9 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 973 to 1,216 pages.
How long does it take to read A Storm of Swords?
About 17 h 12 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 35 days.
How many words is A Storm of Swords?
Roughly 268,000 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)); Wikidata: part of the series (P179) and series ordinal (Wikimedia Foundation / Wikidata contributors).