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How many pages is Cat & Mouse?

Cat & Mouse by James Patterson has a median of 451 pages across 13 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 358 to 502 pages.

Median pages
451
13 editions counted
Range
254–768
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
8.0h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
124k
at 275 words per page
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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 57 min
At 30 min a day
16 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.

200400600800199720002002200520071997: 358 pages1997: 342 pages1997: 342 pages1997: 399 pages1998: 254 pages1998: 457 pages1998: 768 pages1998: 451 pages2001: 472 pages2004: 502 pages2006: 358 pages2009: 599 pages2009: 512 pagesmedian 451
200400600800200020051997: 358 pages1997: 342 pages1997: 342 pages1997: 399 pages1998: 254 pages1998: 457 pages1998: 768 pages1998: 451 pages2001: 472 pages2004: 502 pages2006: 358 pages2009: 599 pages2009: 512 pagesmedian 451
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Pages by format

Hardcover, paperback and mass-market editions are typeset differently, so the same text can run to more or fewer pages.

FormatMedian pagesEditionsReading time
Hardcover55529 h 47 min
Paperback40727 h 10 min

Editions counted

The 13 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 48 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2009Little, Brown and Co.–599OL26298839M
2009Headline–512OL28700962M
2006BCA–358OL45722899M
2004Headline Feature–502OL32084209M
2001G. K. Hall & CompanyPaperback472OL8097246M
1998Headline Feature–254OL22129830M
1998Ulverscroft Large Print Books–457OL35456831M
1998Doubleday BooksHardcover768OL8690440M

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Questions

How many pages is Cat & Mouse?
About 451 pages: that is the median of 13 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 254 to 768 pages.
How long does it take to read Cat & Mouse?
About 7 h 57 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 16 days.
How many words is Cat & Mouse?
Roughly 124,000 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).