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How many pages is Blood and Gold?

Blood and Gold by Anne Rice has a median of 570 pages across 10 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 486 to 752 pages.

Median pages
570
10 editions counted
Range
460–784
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
10h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
157k
at 275 words per page
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How long will Blood and Gold 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
10 h 03 min
At 30 min a day
21 days
At 1 hour a day
11 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

600800200220042006200820102001: 471 pages2001: 486 pages2001: 776 pages2001: 460 pages2001: 784 pages2002: 576 pages2002: 564 pages2002: 752 pages2010: 752 pagesmedian 570
600800200520102001: 471 pages2001: 486 pages2001: 776 pages2001: 460 pages2001: 784 pages2002: 576 pages2002: 564 pages2002: 752 pages2010: 752 pagesmedian 570
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump). 1 edition without a publication year not plotted.

Editions counted

The 10 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 36 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2010Penguin Random House–752OL28440930M
2002Ballantine BooksMass Market Paperback576OL9352600M
2002Ballantine Books–564OL20784757M
2002Arrow Books Ltd–752OL7316609M
2001Knopf–471OL3958586M
2001bca–486OL58601372M
2001Random House Large Print–776OL3950067M
2001Random House–460OL7425281M

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Questions

How many pages is Blood and Gold?
About 570 pages: that is the median of 10 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 460 to 784 pages.
How long does it take to read Blood and Gold?
About 10 h 03 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 21 days.
How many words is Blood and Gold?
Roughly 157,000 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).