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How many pages is Blood Canticle?

Blood Canticle by Anne Rice has a median of 400 pages across 10 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 324 to 416 pages.

Median pages
400
10 editions counted
Range
305–527
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
7.1h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
110k
at 275 words per page
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How long will Blood Canticle 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
7 h 03 min
At 30 min a day
15 days
At 1 hour a day
8 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

30040050020042006200820102003: 305 pages2003: 326 pages2003: 324 pages2003: 306 pages2004: 527 pages2004: 400 pages2004: 416 pages2004: 525 pages2007: 416 pages2010: 400 pagesmedian 400
3004005002005200720102003: 305 pages2003: 326 pages2003: 324 pages2003: 306 pages2004: 527 pages2004: 400 pages2004: 416 pages2004: 525 pages2007: 416 pages2010: 400 pagesmedian 400
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 10 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 33 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2010Penguin Random House–400OL28446393M
2007VergaraPaperback416OL9134381M
2004Wheeler Pub.–527OL3692267M
2004Arrow Books Ltd–400OL7318442M
2004Ballantine BooksMass Market Paperback416OL9882800M
2004Large Print PressPaperback525OL9894166M
2003Alfred A. Knopf–305OL23270830M
2003Random house ltd–326OL58601360M

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Questions

How many pages is Blood Canticle?
About 400 pages: that is the median of 10 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 305 to 527 pages.
How long does it take to read Blood Canticle?
About 7 h 03 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 15 days.
How many words is Blood Canticle?
Roughly 110,000 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).