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How many pages is Cat's Eye?

Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood has a median of 446 pages across 20 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 421 to 477 pages.

Median pages
446
20 editions counted
Range
256–578
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
7.9h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
123k
at 275 words per page

How long will Cat's Eye take you?

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Reading time
7 h 51 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.

4006001990200020101988: 256 pages1988: 421 pages1989: 432 pages1989: 445 pages1989: 445 pages1989: 464 pages1990: 578 pages1994: 385 pages1995: 462 pages1997: 421 pages1998: 477 pages1998: 478 pages1998: 477 pages1999: 578 pages2001: 421 pages2007: 421 pages2009: 432 pages2011: 496 pages2019: 512 pagesmedian 445
40060020001988: 256 pages1988: 421 pages1989: 432 pages1989: 445 pages1989: 445 pages1989: 464 pages1990: 578 pages1994: 385 pages1995: 462 pages1997: 421 pages1998: 477 pages1998: 478 pages1998: 477 pages1999: 578 pages2001: 421 pages2007: 421 pages2009: 432 pages2011: 496 pages2019: 512 pagesmedian 445
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump). 1 edition without a publication year not plotted.

Editions counted

The 20 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 70 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2019Virago–512OL33857360M
2011Emblem Editionspaperback496OL27657435M
2009Little, Brown Book Group Limited–432OL33403929M
2007Bloomsbury–421OL32084227M
2001Virago–421OL22474481M
1999Seal Books–578OL21657909M
1998Anchor BooksPaperback477OL7440350M
1998McClelland and Stewart–478OL20838343M

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Questions

How many pages is Cat's Eye?
About 446 pages: that is the median of 20 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 256 to 578 pages.
How long does it take to read Cat's Eye?
About 7 h 51 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's Eye?
Roughly 123,000 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)).