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How many pages is Breakfast of Champions?

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut has a median of 303 pages across 18 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 298 to 322 pages.

Median pages
303
18 editions counted
Range
239–322
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
5.3h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
83k
at 275 words per page

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Reading time
5 h 20 min
At 30 min a day
11 days
At 1 hour a day
6 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

25030019801990200020101973: 295 pages1973: 296 pages1973: 322 pages1973: 302 pages1973: 322 pages1973: 322 pages1973: 322 pages1973: 303 pages1973: 295 pages1973: 303 pages1973: 322 pages1990: 239 pages1991: 320 pages1991: 295 pages1999: 302 pages1999: 302 pages1999: 320 pages2010: 320 pagesmedian 303
250300198020001973: 295 pages1973: 296 pages1973: 322 pages1973: 302 pages1973: 322 pages1973: 322 pages1973: 322 pages1973: 303 pages1973: 295 pages1973: 303 pages1973: 322 pages1990: 239 pages1991: 320 pages1991: 295 pages1999: 302 pages1999: 302 pages1999: 320 pages2010: 320 pagesmedian 303
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 18 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 60 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2010Penguin Random House–320OL33399060M
1999Dell–302OL24965707M
1999Dell–302OL16985797M
1999Tandem LibrarySchool & Library Binding320OL9865110M
1991Dell–320OL7517559M
1991Dell Pub. Co.–295OL16714093M
1990Grafton Books–239OL15084042M
1973Delacorte Press–295OL19456614M

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Questions

How many pages is Breakfast of Champions?
About 303 pages: that is the median of 18 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 239 to 322 pages.
How long does it take to read Breakfast of Champions?
About 5 h 20 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 11 days.
How many words is Breakfast of Champions?
Roughly 83,000 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)).