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How many pages is Along Came a Spider?

Along Came a Spider by James Patterson has a median of 475 pages across 14 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 450 to 500 pages.

Median pages
475
14 editions counted
Range
435–649
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
8.4h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
131k
at 275 words per page
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How long will Along Came a Spider take you?

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Reading time
8 h 22 min
At 30 min a day
17 days
At 1 hour a day
9 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

5006002000201020201993: 528 pages1993: 435 pages1993: 502 pages1993: 470 pages1993: 435 pages1993: 502 pages1994: 435 pages2006: 454 pages2006: 454 pages2009: 649 pages2017: 496 pages2017: 496 pages2018: 448 pages2025: 480 pagesmedian 475
500600200020201993: 528 pages1993: 435 pages1993: 502 pages1993: 470 pages1993: 435 pages1993: 502 pages1994: 435 pages2006: 454 pages2006: 454 pages2009: 649 pages2017: 496 pages2017: 496 pages2018: 448 pages2025: 480 pagesmedian 475
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 14 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 65 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2025Little Brown & Company–480OL60901815M
2018Little Brown & Company–448OL44270504M
2017Arrow Books–496OL28630432M
2017Penguin Random House–496OL33571010M
2009Little, Brown and Co.–649OL26328406M
2006BCA–454OL46761508M
2006BCA–454OL43654208M
1994HarperCollins–435OL15495510M

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Questions

How many pages is Along Came a Spider?
About 475 pages: that is the median of 14 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 435 to 649 pages.
How long does it take to read Along Came a Spider?
About 8 h 22 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 17 days.
How many words is Along Came a Spider?
Roughly 131,000 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).