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How many pages is Absolute Power?

Absolute Power by David Baldacci has a median of 528 pages across 19 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 469 to 568 pages.

Median pages
528
19 editions counted
Range
360–699
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
9.3h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
145k
at 275 words per page

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Reading time
9 h 18 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.

40060020002005201020151996: 480 pages1996: 469 pages1996: 505 pages1996: 469 pages1996: 699 pages1997: 360 pages1997: 469 pages2000: 543 pages2000: 469 pages2001: 528 pages2001: 528 pages2001: 528 pages2001: 528 pages2002: 400 pages2003: 576 pages2009: 576 pages2010: 678 pages2016: 560 pages2016: 576 pagesmedian 528
400600200020101996: 480 pages1996: 469 pages1996: 505 pages1996: 469 pages1996: 699 pages1997: 360 pages1997: 469 pages2000: 543 pages2000: 469 pages2001: 528 pages2001: 528 pages2001: 528 pages2001: 528 pages2002: 400 pages2003: 576 pages2009: 576 pages2010: 678 pages2016: 560 pages2016: 576 pagesmedian 528
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 19 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 52 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2016Grand Central Publishing–560OL29739520M
2016Pan Books–576OL28599481M
2010Vision–678OL26333728M
2009Pan Macmillan–576OL29028520M
2003Pan BooksPaperback576OL9698241M
2002Pocket Books–400OL28953133M
2001Grand Central Publishing–528OL29562957M
2001Grand Central Publishing–528OL29562969M

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Questions

How many pages is Absolute Power?
About 528 pages: that is the median of 19 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 360 to 699 pages.
How long does it take to read Absolute Power?
About 9 h 18 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 19 days.
How many words is Absolute Power?
Roughly 145,000 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)).