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How many pages is Before They Are Hanged?

Before They Are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie has a median of 548 pages across 8 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 452 to 568 pages.

Median pages
548
8 editions counted
Range
448–614
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
9.7h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
151k
at 275 words per page
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Series in order

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Reading time
9 h 39 min
At 30 min a day
20 days
At 1 hour a day
10 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

500600200820102012201420162007: 448 pages2007: 448 pages2007: 454 pages2008: 543 pages2008: 592 pages2011: 552 pages2015: 560 pages2017: 614 pagesmedian 547
500600201020152007: 448 pages2007: 448 pages2007: 454 pages2008: 543 pages2008: 592 pages2011: 552 pages2015: 560 pages2017: 614 pagesmedian 547
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 8 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 19 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2017Gollancz–614OL26779535M
2015Orbit–560OL28811906M
2011Subterranean Presshardcover552OL27283715M
2008Pyr Books–543OL23106653M
2008Orion Publishing Group, Limited–592OL28447095M
2007Gollanczpaperback448OL27277784M
2007GollanczHardcover448OL7878941M
2007BCA–454OL50987839M

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Questions

How many pages is Before They Are Hanged?
About 548 pages: that is the median of 8 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 448 to 614 pages.
How long does it take to read Before They Are Hanged?
About 9 h 39 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 20 days.
How many words is Before They Are Hanged?
Roughly 151,000 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).