Book · by Bill Bryson
How many pages is A Walk in the Woods?
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson has a median of 320 pages across 10 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 293 to 400 pages.
How long will A Walk in the Woods take you?
Page count of every edition, by year
Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.
Pages by format
Hardcover, paperback and mass-market editions are typeset differently, so the same text can run to more or fewer pages.
| Format | Median pages | Editions | Reading time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paperback | 327 | 2 | 6 h 18 min |
| Mass market | 416 | 2 | 8 h 01 min |
Editions counted
The 10 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 35 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Broadway Books | – | 276 | OL27187953M |
| 2015 | Transworld Publishers Limited | – | 336 | OL28590932M |
| 2007 | Anchor Books | Mass Market Paperback | 416 | OL9345866M |
| 2006 | Seal Books | Mass Market Paperback | 416 | OL8362614M |
| 2002 | Anchor Canada | – | 289 | OL22470664M |
| 2001 | Tandem Library | – | 304 | OL7588584M |
| 1999 | Broadway | Paperback | 304 | OL8064231M |
| 1998 | Broadway Books | – | 276 | OL685740M |
| 1998 | Thorndike Press | – | 469 | OL361423M |
| 1998 | Black Swan | Paperback | 350 | OL7816215M |
More by Bill Bryson
- 552 pagesA Short History of Nearly Everything
- 464 pagesThe Body
- 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 Walk in the Woods?
- About 320 pages: that is the median of 10 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 276 to 469 pages.
- How long does it take to read A Walk in the Woods?
- About 6 h 10 min at 238 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 13 days.
- How many words is A Walk in the Woods?
- 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)).