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How many pages is Catching Fire?

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins has a median of 438 pages across 22 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 391 to 448 pages.

Median pages
438
22 editions counted
Range
384–500
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
7.7h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
121k
at 275 words per page
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Reading time
7 h 44 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.

40045050020102015202020252009: 391 pages2009: 500 pages2009: 392 pages2009: 391 pages2010: 391 pages2012: 472 pages2012: 472 pages2012: 400 pages2013: 400 pages2013: 391 pages2013: 438 pages2013: 472 pages2013: 391 pages2013: 439 pages2014: 439 pages2014: 439 pages2014: 480 pages2015: 439 pages2018: 448 pages2018: 448 pages2025: 400 pages2025: 384 pagesmedian 438
400450500201020202009: 391 pages2009: 500 pages2009: 392 pages2009: 391 pages2010: 391 pages2012: 472 pages2012: 472 pages2012: 400 pages2013: 400 pages2013: 391 pages2013: 438 pages2013: 472 pages2013: 391 pages2013: 439 pages2014: 439 pages2014: 439 pages2014: 480 pages2015: 439 pages2018: 448 pages2018: 448 pages2025: 400 pages2025: 384 pagesmedian 438
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
Hardcover39136 h 54 min
Paperback439127 h 44 min

Editions counted

The 22 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 1 more edition was 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 118 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2025ScholasticPaperback400OL57526290M
2025ScholasticHardcover384OL57744823M
2018Scholasticpaperback448OL44185121M
2018Scholasticpaperback448OL31827654M
2015ScholasticPaperback439OL29551000M
2014Scholastic Inc.Paperback439OL26797149M
2014Scholastic Children's BooksPaperback439OL37079231M
2014Scholastic Australia–480OL28553297M

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Questions

How many pages is Catching Fire?
About 438 pages: that is the median of 22 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 384 to 500 pages.
How long does it take to read Catching Fire?
About 7 h 44 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 16 days.
How many words is Catching Fire?
Roughly 121,000 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).