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How many pages is Bad Luck and Trouble?

Bad Luck and Trouble by Lee Child has a median of 467 pages across 10 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 418 to 560 pages.

Median pages
467
10 editions counted
Range
377–592
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
8.2h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
128k
at 275 words per page
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How long will Bad Luck and Trouble take you?

Starts at the fiction average of 260 words per minute and 275 words per page. Move the slider to your own speed.

Reading time
8 h 14 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.

400500600200720102012201520172007: 422 pages2007: 377 pages2007: 592 pages2007: 422 pages2007: 416 pages2008: 560 pages2008: 560 pages2009: 512 pages2011: 560 pages2018: 400 pagesmedian 467
400500600201020152007: 422 pages2007: 377 pages2007: 592 pages2007: 422 pages2007: 416 pages2008: 560 pages2008: 560 pages2009: 512 pages2011: 560 pages2018: 400 pagesmedian 467
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
Hardcover50428 h 53 min
Mass market53629 h 27 min

Editions counted

The 10 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 44 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2018Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks–400OL29792269M
2011Bantam Books–560OL28461589M
2009DellMass Market Paperback512OL24085260M
2008Bantam Books–560OL28434552M
2008DellMass Market Paperback560OL9853603M
2007BCA–422OL49632065M
2007Delacorte Press–377OL23277929M
2007Random House Large PrintHardcover592OL7914812M

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Questions

How many pages is Bad Luck and Trouble?
About 467 pages: that is the median of 10 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 377 to 592 pages.
How long does it take to read Bad Luck and Trouble?
About 8 h 14 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 17 days.
How many words is Bad Luck and Trouble?
Roughly 128,000 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).