Book · by Stephen King
How many pages is Desperation?
Desperation by Stephen King has a median of 566 pages across 12 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 546 to 694 pages.
How long will Desperation 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 | 566 | 3 | 9 h 59 min |
| Mass market | 626 | 2 | 11 h 03 min |
Editions counted
The 12 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 2 more editions were 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 55 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Gallery Books | – | 624 | OL28845905M |
| 2010 | Hodder & Stoughton | – | 300 | OL53243896M |
| 2007 | Hodder | Mass Market Paperback | 706 | OL27046766M |
| 1997 | Signet | Mass Market Paperback | 547 | OL26591033M |
| 1997 | Hodder & Stoughton | – | 720 | OL15963371M |
| 1997 | Compass Press | – | 761 | OL658371M |
| 1997 | Signet | – | 547 | OL22398814M |
| 1996 | Hodder & Stoughton | hardcover | 545 | OL28368041M |
| 1996 | Hodder & Stoughton | – | 545 | OL15009678M |
| 1996 | Viking | hardcover | 690 | OL979816M |
| 1996 | BCA | – | 566 | OL43583411M |
| 1996 | BCA | Hardcover | 566 | OL46861632M |
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Questions
- How many pages is Desperation?
- About 566 pages: that is the median of 12 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 300 to 761 pages.
- How long does it take to read Desperation?
- About 9 h 59 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 20 days.
- How many words is Desperation?
- Roughly 156,000 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)).