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How many pages is A Time to Kill?

A Time to Kill by John Grisham has a median of 515 pages across 15 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 487 to 745 pages.

Median pages
515
15 editions counted
Range
415–784
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
9.1h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
142k
at 275 words per page

How long will A Time to Kill take you?

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Reading time
9 h 05 min
At 30 min a day
19 days
At 1 hour a day
10 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

400600800199019952000200520101989: 425 pages1989: 425 pages1992: 528 pages1993: 487 pages1993: 487 pages1996: 515 pages1998: 415 pages2004: 515 pages2004: 769 pages2009: 660 pages2010: 752 pages2012: 784 pages2013: 738 pages2013: 752 pagesmedian 515
4006008001990200020101989: 425 pages1989: 425 pages1992: 528 pages1993: 487 pages1993: 487 pages1996: 515 pages1998: 415 pages2004: 515 pages2004: 769 pages2009: 660 pages2010: 752 pages2012: 784 pages2013: 738 pages2013: 752 pagesmedian 515
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump). 1 edition without a publication year not plotted.

Pages by format

Hardcover, paperback and mass-market editions are typeset differently, so the same text can run to more or fewer pages.

FormatMedian pagesEditionsReading time
Hardcover45628 h 02 min
Paperback52839 h 18 min
Mass market660311 h 38 min

Editions counted

The 15 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 79 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2013Arrow BooksMass Market Paperback738OL28280145M
2013Penguin Random House–752OL29167905M
2012Random House Large PrintPaperback784OL29672222M
2010Penguin Random House–752OL29019254M
2009DellMass Market Paperback660OL24085188M
2004Delta Trade PaperbacksPaperback515OL26644277M
2004Random House Large Print–769OL3306130M
1998Century–415OL22331832M

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Questions

How many pages is A Time to Kill?
About 515 pages: that is the median of 15 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 415 to 784 pages.
How long does it take to read A Time to Kill?
About 9 h 05 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 19 days.
How many words is A Time to Kill?
Roughly 142,000 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)).