Book · by Joseph Heller · first published 1904
How many pages is Catch-22?
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller has a median of 463 pages across 50 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 443 to 527 pages.
How long will Catch-22 take you?
Page count of every edition, by year
Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.
Pages by format
Hardcover, paperback and mass-market editions are typeset differently, so the same text can run to more or fewer pages.
| Format | Median pages | Editions | Reading time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 453 | 4 | 7 h 59 min |
| Paperback | 478 | 5 | 8 h 26 min |
Editions counted
The 50 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 3 more editions were set aside because the page count was less than half or more than 2.2 times the median, which usually means an abridged text, an omnibus, or a typing error. Open Library lists 134 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Penguin Random House | – | 544 | OL29071531M |
| 2011 | Simon & Schuster | – | 524 | OL24626528M |
| 2011 | Vintage Classic | paperback | 540 | OL28206344M |
| 2011 | Simon & Schuster | Paperback | 524 | OL24627169M |
| 2011 | Penguin Random House | – | 544 | OL29066121M |
| 2011 | Penguin Random House | – | 624 | OL28469034M |
| 2005 | Penguin Random House | – | 560 | OL28979706M |
| 2004 | Simon & Schuster | Paperback | 453 | OL20024538M |
| 2004 | Penguin Random House | – | 528 | OL28960349M |
| 2004 | The Folio Society | – | 438 | OL16245474M |
| 2000 | Tandem Library | School & Library Binding | 463 | OL7973550M |
| 1999 | Simon & Schuster | – | 415 | OL6803063M |
| 1999 | Knopf Publishing Group | – | 448 | OL28968421M |
| 1996 | Simon & Schuster | Paperback | 464 | OL7721539M |
| 1995 | Knopf | – | 568 | OL933823M |
| 1994 | Vintage | – | 519 | OL22135595M |
| 1994 | Simon & Schuster | – | 415 | OL1089872M |
| 1994 | Penguin Random House | – | 513 | OL28724402M |
| 1992 | Demco Media | Turtleback | 455 | OL10924578M |
| 1991 | Hodder Education Group | – | 480 | OL28968447M |
| 1987 | RH Canada UK Dist | – | 448 | OL7414826M |
| 1984 | Ulverscroft Large Print | Hardcover | 768 | OL9861345M |
| 1979 | Dell Publishing Co | – | 463 | OL19651315M |
| 1979 | Dell Pub. Co. | – | 463 | OL18255760M |
| 1978 | Dell Publishing Co | – | 562 | OL20021159M |
| 1978 | Franklin Library | – | 551 | OL4181778M |
| 1974 | Dell Pub | – | 463 | OL22199823M |
| 1974 | Corgi | – | 478 | OL15060573M |
| 1973 | Dell | – | 562 | OL21947816M |
| 1973 | Dell Pub. Co. | – | 562 | OL43751518M |
| 1970 | Dell | – | 463 | OL24953142M |
| 1969 | Dell | – | 463 | OL24956618M |
| 1968 | Cape | – | 443 | OL14967712M |
| 1966 | – | – | 463 | OL21500373M |
| 1966 | Modern Library | – | 443 | OL19799195M |
| 1964 | Corgi Books | Paperback | 478 | OL22407013M |
| 1963 | the reprint society | – | 415 | OL18183250M |
| 1962 | J. Cape | – | 443 | OL18084933M |
| 1962 | Cape | – | 443 | OL2915359M |
| 1962 | Jonathan Cape | Hardcover | 443 | OL22571169M |
| 1962 | Cape | Hardcover | 443 | OL16503452M |
| 1962 | Corgi | – | 569 | OL22315066M |
| 1962 | Dell Pub. Co. | – | 463 | OL24202886M |
| 1961 | Simon and Schuster | – | 443 | OL14724410M |
| 1961 | Simon and Schuster | – | 472 | OL16086747M |
| 1961 | Simon and Schuster | – | 443 | OL18860569M |
| 1961 | Simon and Schuster | – | 472 | OL18200973M |
| 1961 | Simon and Schuster | – | 443 | OL5825513M |
| 1961 | Simon and Schuster | – | 337 | OL43711752M |
| 1961 | Dell Publishing company | – | 463 | OL15135833M |
Questions
- How many pages is Catch-22?
- About 463 pages: that is the median of 50 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 337 to 768 pages.
- How long does it take to read Catch-22?
- About 8 h 10 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 17 days.
- How many words is Catch-22?
- Roughly 127,000 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)).