Book · by Michael Crichton
How many pages is Congo?
Congo by Michael Crichton has a median of 348 pages across 17 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 316 to 370 pages.
How long will Congo 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 | 348 | 3 | 6 h 08 min |
| Paperback | 334 | 2 | 5 h 53 min |
| Mass market | 370 | 5 | 6 h 31 min |
Editions counted
The 17 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 50 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Harper | Mass Market Paperback | 496 | OL24087800M |
| 2003 | Avon | Mass Market Paperback | 480 | OL9232970M |
| 2000 | Charnwood | Hardcover | 480 | OL11236994M |
| 1997 | Ballantine Books | Paperback | 316 | OL10685952M |
| 1995 | Cresset editions | – | 316 | OL22490162M |
| 1993 | Century | – | 352 | OL22625994M |
| 1993 | Ballantine Books | Mass Market Paperback | 316 | OL24375826M |
| 1993 | Arrow | Mass Market Paperback | 370 | OL22016128M |
| 1993 | Arrow | Paperback | 352 | OL22486157M |
| 1981 | Avon | Mass Market Paperback | 301 | OL24949200M |
| 1981 | Allen Lane | – | 348 | OL21671769M |
| 1981 | G.K. Hall | – | 485 | OL4259252M |
| 1981 | Penguin | – | 348 | OL21141722M |
| 1980 | Knopf | Hardcover | 304 | OL30732835M |
| 1980 | Alfred A. Knopf | Hardcover | 348 | OL3865077M |
| 1980 | Franklin Library | – | 336 | OL3805262M |
| 1980 | Knopf : distributed by Random House | – | 348 | OL4095111M |
More by Michael Crichton
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All 12 books by Michael Crichton with page counts
Questions
- How many pages is Congo?
- About 348 pages: that is the median of 17 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 301 to 496 pages.
- How long does it take to read Congo?
- About 6 h 08 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 13 days.
- How many words is Congo?
- Roughly 96,000 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)).