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How many pages is Cross?

Cross by James Patterson has a median of 412 pages across 12 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 400 to 439 pages.

Median pages
412
12 editions counted
Range
320–464
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
7.3h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
113k
at 275 words per page
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How long will Cross take you?

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Reading time
7 h 16 min
At 30 min a day
15 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.

300350400450200620082010201220142006: 400 pages2006: 448 pages2006: 320 pages2006: 436 pages2007: 400 pages2007: 361 pages2007: 409 pages2007: 416 pages2010: 464 pages2012: 400 pages2012: 416 pages2014: 455 pagesmedian 412
30035040045020102006: 400 pages2006: 448 pages2006: 320 pages2006: 436 pages2007: 400 pages2007: 361 pages2007: 409 pages2007: 416 pages2010: 464 pages2012: 400 pages2012: 416 pages2014: 455 pagesmedian 412
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 12 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 49 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2014Headline Publishing–455OL32090455M
2012Little Brown & Company–400OL29659267M
2012Grand Central Publishing–416OL29651734M
2010Headline Publishing Group–464OL28700961M
2007Grand Central Publishing–400OL29806216M
2007Charnwood–361OL32984099M
2007Grand Central Pub.–409OL27140680M
2007Grand Central PublishingMass Market Paperback416OL9626981M

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Questions

How many pages is Cross?
About 412 pages: that is the median of 12 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 320 to 464 pages.
How long does it take to read Cross?
About 7 h 16 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 15 days.
How many words is Cross?
Roughly 113,000 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).