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How many pages is Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret?

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume has a median of 149 pages across 23 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 149 to 161 pages.

Median pages
149
23 editions counted
Range
124–192
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
2.6h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
41k
at 275 words per page

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Reading time
2 h 38 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.

1251501752001980200020201970: 149 pages1970: 160 pages1970: 149 pages1975: 162 pages1976: 149 pages1976: 149 pages1978: 149 pages1978: 149 pages1980: 149 pages1981: 149 pages1990: 149 pages1991: 149 pages1993: 149 pages1994: 124 pages1999: 149 pages2001: 160 pages2013: 149 pages2014: 192 pages2014: 171 pages2020: 176 pages2022: 176 pages2023: 152 pages2024: 192 pagesmedian 149
1251501752001980200020201970: 149 pages1970: 160 pages1970: 149 pages1975: 162 pages1976: 149 pages1976: 149 pages1978: 149 pages1978: 149 pages1980: 149 pages1981: 149 pages1990: 149 pages1991: 149 pages1993: 149 pages1994: 124 pages1999: 149 pages2001: 160 pages2013: 149 pages2014: 192 pages2014: 171 pages2020: 176 pages2022: 176 pages2023: 152 pages2024: 192 pagesmedian 149
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Pages by format

Hardcover, paperback and mass-market editions are typeset differently, so the same text can run to more or fewer pages.

FormatMedian pagesEditionsReading time
Hardcover14952 h 38 min
Paperback14952 h 38 min

Editions counted

The 23 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 66 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2024Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing–192OL53382503M
2023Macmillan Children's Bookspaperback152OL48170747M
2022Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing–176OL36102410M
2020Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing–176OL29875251M
2014Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing–192OL28798208M
2014Atheneum Books for Young Readershardcover171OL27537236M
2013Delacorte PressPaperback149OL24087675M
2001Richard Jackson Books/Athaneum Books for Young ReadersHardcover160OL7729661M

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Questions

How many pages is Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret?
About 149 pages: that is the median of 23 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 124 to 192 pages.
How long does it take to read Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret?
About 2 h 38 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 6 days.
How many words is Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret?
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)).