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How many pages is Cat's Cradle?

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut has a median of 231 pages across 22 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 196 to 238 pages.

Median pages
231
22 editions counted
Range
179–289
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
4.1h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
64k
at 275 words per page

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Reading time
4 h 04 min
At 30 min a day
9 days
At 1 hour a day
5 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

2002503001980200020201963: 242 pages1963: 233 pages1963: 204 pages1963: 233 pages1963: 231 pages1963: 231 pages1963: 194 pages1964: 231 pages1965: 179 pages1965: 231 pages1969: 191 pages1972: 191 pages1976: 231 pages1990: 289 pages1992: 191 pages1998: 287 pages2000: 280 pages2006: 287 pages2009: 228 pages2010: 192 pages2011: 216 pages2020: 240 pagesmedian 231
2002503001980200020201963: 242 pages1963: 233 pages1963: 204 pages1963: 233 pages1963: 231 pages1963: 231 pages1963: 194 pages1964: 231 pages1965: 179 pages1965: 231 pages1969: 191 pages1972: 191 pages1976: 231 pages1990: 289 pages1992: 191 pages1998: 287 pages2000: 280 pages2006: 287 pages2009: 228 pages2010: 192 pages2011: 216 pages2020: 240 pagesmedian 231
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

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 87 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2020Penguin Books, Limited–240OL29506528M
2011Penguin Books, Limited–216OL28464071M
2010Orion Publishing Group, Limited–192OL34419923M
2009Penguin Books, Limited–228OL28454229M
2006Dial PressPaperback287OL18432887M
2000G.K. Hall–280OL6793815M
1998Delta Trade Paperbacks–287OL3382756M
1992Demco MediaTurtleback191OL10924623M

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Questions

How many pages is Cat's Cradle?
About 231 pages: that is the median of 22 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 179 to 289 pages.
How long does it take to read Cat's Cradle?
About 4 h 04 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 9 days.
How many words is Cat's Cradle?
Roughly 64,000 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)).