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Book · by Jamaica Kincaid · first published 1983

How many pages is Annie John?

Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid has a median of 148 pages across 7 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; most editions have exactly 148 pages.

Median pages
148
7 editions counted
Range
148–156
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
2.6h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
41k
at 275 words per page

How long will Annie John take you?

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Reading time
2 h 37 min
At 30 min a day
6 days
At 1 hour a day
3 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

1451501551601985199019951983: 148 pages1985: 148 pages1986: 148 pages1986: 148 pages1986: 156 pages1997: 148 pages1997: 148 pagesmedian 148
1451501551601985199019951983: 148 pages1985: 148 pages1986: 148 pages1986: 148 pages1986: 156 pages1997: 148 pages1997: 148 pagesmedian 148
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 7 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 23 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
1997Farrar, Straus and Giroux–148OL7424379M
1997Noonday Press–148OL22233452M
1986New American Library–148OL24763079M
1986New American Library–148OL2547813M
1986Plume–156OL7590331M
1985Farrar, Straus, Giroux–148OL2865531M
1983––148OL27930185M

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Questions

How many pages is Annie John?
About 148 pages: that is the median of 7 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 148 to 156 pages.
How long does it take to read Annie John?
About 2 h 37 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 6 days.
How many words is Annie John?
Roughly 41,000 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)).