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How many pages is Diary of a Wimpy Kid?

Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney has a median of 224 pages across 12 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 217 to 224 pages.

Median pages
224
12 editions counted
Range
217–229
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
3.9h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
62k
at 275 words per page
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Reading time
3 h 57 min
At 30 min a day
8 days
At 1 hour a day
4 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

220230200720102012201520172007: 217 pages2007: 217 pages2007: 221 pages2007: 224 pages2007: 217 pages2008: 226 pages2012: 224 pages2017: 224 pages2017: 224 pages2017: 229 pages2019: 226 pagesmedian 224
220230201020152007: 217 pages2007: 217 pages2007: 221 pages2007: 224 pages2007: 217 pages2008: 226 pages2012: 224 pages2017: 224 pages2017: 224 pages2017: 229 pages2019: 226 pagesmedian 224
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump). 1 edition without a publication year not plotted.

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 96 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2019Black and White Publishing Limited–226OL28709093M
2017Amulet BooksHardcover224OL28940883M
2017Abrams, Inc.–224OL28850029M
2017Thorndike Press–229OL28868361M
2012Abrams, Inc.–224OL29664389M
2008PuffinPaperback226OL25438613M
2007Amulet Books–217OL23276466M
2007Amulet BooksPaperback217OL24328198M

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Questions

How many pages is Diary of a Wimpy Kid?
About 224 pages: that is the median of 12 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 217 to 229 pages.
How long does it take to read Diary of a Wimpy Kid?
About 3 h 57 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 8 days.
How many words is Diary of a Wimpy Kid?
Roughly 62,000 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).