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How many pages is Carpe Jugulum?

Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett has a median of 416 pages across 8 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 358 to 416 pages.

Median pages
416
8 editions counted
Range
285–425
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
7.3h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
114k
at 275 words per page
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How long will Carpe Jugulum 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 20 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.

30035040020002005201020151998: 285 pages1999: 296 pages1999: 425 pages2000: 378 pages2006: 416 pages2008: 416 pages2013: 416 pages2016: 416 pagesmedian 416
300350400200020101998: 285 pages1999: 296 pages1999: 425 pages2000: 378 pages2006: 416 pages2008: 416 pages2013: 416 pages2016: 416 pagesmedian 416
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 8 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 39 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2016Transworld Publishers Limited–416OL28606538M
2013Penguin Random House–416OL28502777M
2008Transworld Publishers Limited–416OL33392288M
2006CorgiPaperback416OL7815561M
2000HarperTorch–378OL7286689M
1999HarperPrism–296OL39651M
1999Corgi BooksPaperback425OL7815224M
1998Doubleday–285OL7439637M

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Questions

How many pages is Carpe Jugulum?
About 416 pages: that is the median of 8 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 285 to 425 pages.
How long does it take to read Carpe Jugulum?
About 7 h 20 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 15 days.
How many words is Carpe Jugulum?
Roughly 114,000 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).