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How many pages is City of Bones?

City of Bones by Cassandra Clare has a median of 496 pages across 5 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 485 to 512 pages.

Median pages
496
5 editions counted
Range
442–615
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
8.7h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
136k
at 275 words per page
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How long will City of Bones take you?

Starts at the fiction average of 260 words per minute and 275 words per page. Move the slider to your own speed.

Reading time
8 h 45 min
At 30 min a day
18 days
At 1 hour a day
9 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

50060020062008201020122007: 485 pages2007: 442 pages2008: 496 pages2009: 512 pages2010: 615 pagesmedian 496
5006002005200720102007: 485 pages2007: 442 pages2008: 496 pages2009: 512 pages2010: 615 pagesmedian 496
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 5 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 39 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2010Margaret K. McElderry Books–615OL32419400M
2009McElderry Books, Margaret K.–512OL29577807M
2008Simon PulsePaperback496OL9484844M
2007Margaret K. McElderryHardcover485OL8458200M
2007Walker BooksPaperback442OL42104939M

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Questions

How many pages is City of Bones?
About 496 pages: that is the median of 5 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 442 to 615 pages.
How long does it take to read City of Bones?
About 8 h 45 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 18 days.
How many words is City of Bones?
Roughly 136,000 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).