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How many pages is At Home?

At Home by Bill Bryson has a median of 586 pages across 10 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 542 to 700 pages.

Median pages
586
10 editions counted
Range
497–768
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
11h
at 238 wpm (non-fiction average)
Words (est.)
161k
at 275 words per page

How long will At Home take you?

Starts at the non-fiction average of 238 words per minute and 275 words per page. Move the slider to your own speed.

Reading time
11 h 18 min
At 30 min a day
23 days
At 1 hour a day
12 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

50060070080020102012201420162010: 536 pages2010: 497 pages2010: 768 pages2010: 497 pages2011: 700 pages2011: 592 pages2011: 581 pages2011: 700 pages2013: 560 pages2016: 700 pagesmedian 586
50060070080020102012201420162010: 536 pages2010: 497 pages2010: 768 pages2010: 497 pages2011: 700 pages2011: 592 pages2011: 581 pages2011: 700 pages2013: 560 pages2016: 700 pagesmedian 586
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
Hardcover51629 h 57 min
Paperback700513 h 29 min

Editions counted

The 10 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 31 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2016Black SwanPaperback700OL28204581M
2013Transworld Publishers Limited–560OL28482697M
2011Black SwanPaperback700OL25417742M
2011Doubleday Canada–592OL28749564M
2011Anchor BooksPaperback581OL26299281M
2011Black Swanpaperback700OL27297019M
2010Doubledayhardcover536OL28152327M
2010DoubledayHardcover497OL24050119M

More by Bill Bryson

All 8 books by Bill Bryson with page counts

Questions

How many pages is At Home?
About 586 pages: that is the median of 10 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 497 to 768 pages.
How long does it take to read At Home?
About 11 h 18 min at 238 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 23 days.
How many words is At Home?
Roughly 161,000 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)).