Book · by Toni Morrison
How many pages is Beloved?
Beloved by Toni Morrison has a median of 321 pages across 35 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 275 to 352 pages.
How long will Beloved take you?
Page count of every edition, by year
Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.
Pages by format
Hardcover, paperback and mass-market editions are typeset differently, so the same text can run to more or fewer pages.
| Format | Median pages | Editions | Reading time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 288 | 3 | 5 h 05 min |
| Paperback | 275 | 5 | 4 h 51 min |
Editions counted
The 35 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 111 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Vintage International | Paperback | 321 | OL62486031M |
| 2021 | Penguin Random House | – | 352 | OL29487790M |
| 2019 | Alfred A. Knopf | hardcover | 288 | OL28310455M |
| 2019 | Penguin Random House | – | 368 | OL29457743M |
| 2014 | Penguin Random House | – | 352 | OL33514354M |
| 2011 | Vintage Books | – | 354 | OL58886319M |
| 2010 | Penguin Random House | – | 352 | OL28440422M |
| 2008 | Penguin Random House | – | 352 | OL28436185M |
| 2006 | Everyman | – | 360 | OL28429344M |
| 2006 | Everyman's Library | Hardcover | 360 | OL9310678M |
| 2004 | Vintage International | – | 321 | OL3382018M |
| 2004 | Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media | Turtleback | 321 | OL10944007M |
| 2001 | Chivers Press | – | 368 | OL34411712M |
| 2000 | Penguin (Non-Classics) | – | 272 | OL7352241M |
| 2000 | Chivers Press | – | 368 | OL34411665M |
| 2000 | Penguin Books | – | 260 | OL6899949M |
| 1999 | Vintage | Paperback | 276 | OL9271316M |
| 1998 | Knopf | – | 321 | OL7424912M |
| 1998 | Random House Large Print in association with Alfred A. Knopf | – | 379 | OL365892M |
| 1998 | Plume | Paperback | 275 | OL17727336M |
| 1998 | Vintage | – | 288 | OL18160858M |
| 1998 | A.A. Knopf | – | 321 | OL17025415M |
| 1997 | Vintage Books | – | 288 | OL7319927M |
| 1996 | Alfred A. Knopf | – | 275 | OL37067491M |
| 1993 | Chatto & Windus | – | 275 | OL22250765M |
| 1989 | Random House Value Publishing | Hardcover | 275 | OL7672490M |
| 1988 | Plume | – | 275 | OL21554226M |
| 1988 | Plume | – | 288 | OL7590361M |
| 1987 | Chatto & Windus | – | 275 | OL2076524M |
| 1987 | Alfred A. Knopf | paperback | 275 | OL39795545M |
| 1987 | Signet | – | 338 | OL22361787M |
| 1987 | Alfred A. Knopf | – | 275 | OL25420481M |
| 1987 | Plume | – | 275 | OL2529745M |
| 1987 | Thorndike Press | – | 472 | OL2396962M |
| 1987 | Alfred A. Knopf | paperback | 275 | OL18294307M |
More by Toni Morrison
- 172 pagesThe Bluest Eye
- 174 pagesSula
- 341 pagesSong of Solomon
- 229 pagesJazz
- 200 pagesGod Help the Child
All 6 books by Toni Morrison with page counts
Questions
- How many pages is Beloved?
- About 321 pages: that is the median of 35 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 260 to 472 pages.
- How long does it take to read Beloved?
- About 5 h 40 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 12 days.
- How many words is Beloved?
- Roughly 88,000 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)).