Book · by Neil Gaiman
How many pages is American Gods?
American Gods by Neil Gaiman has a median of 658 pages across 14 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 592 to 734 pages.
How long will American Gods 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 | 672 | 5 | 11 h 51 min |
| Mass market | 679 | 2 | 11 h 58 min |
Editions counted
The 14 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 1 more edition was set aside because the page count was less than half or more than 2.2 times the median, which usually means an abridged text, an omnibus, or a typing error. Open Library lists 72 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Headline | Paperback | 728 | OL27309814M |
| 2020 | HarperCollins Publishers | – | 656 | OL29800962M |
| 2017 | HarperCollins Publishers | – | 784 | OL29743439M |
| 2017 | HarperCollins Publishers | – | 784 | OL28887120M |
| 2017 | Headline | Paperback | 736 | OL29327813M |
| 2016 | William Morrow | Mass Market Paperback | 750 | OL26681178M |
| 2011 | William Morrow | – | 541 | OL25291942M |
| 2009 | HarperPerennial | Paperback | 592 | OL3685141M |
| 2005 | HarperTorch | Mass Market Paperback | 608 | OL25632682M |
| 2004 | Hill House, Publishers | – | 661 | OL31690516M |
| 2004 | Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media | Unknown Binding | 592 | OL9904220M |
| 2002 | Headline Book Publishing | Paperback | 672 | OL7960381M |
| 2001 | Headline | Paperback | 504 | OL18657574M |
| 2001 | William Morrow | Hardcover | 465 | OL31902599M |
More by Neil Gaiman
- 182 pagesCoraline
- 312 pagesThe Graveyard Book
- 264 pagesThe Ocean at the End of the Lane
- 256 pagesStardust
- 400 pagesNeverwhere
- 304 pagesNorse Mythology
All 14 books by Neil Gaiman with page counts
Questions
- How many pages is American Gods?
- About 658 pages: that is the median of 14 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 465 to 784 pages.
- How long does it take to read American Gods?
- About 11 h 36 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 24 days.
- How many words is American Gods?
- Roughly 181,000 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)).