Book · by Frank Herbert
How many pages is Dune?
Dune by Frank Herbert has a median of 535 pages across 29 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 517 to 592 pages.
How long will Dune 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 | 528 | 3 | 9 h 18 min |
| Paperback | 540 | 4 | 9 h 31 min |
Editions counted
The 29 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 155 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Penguin Publishing Group | – | 704 | OL30201741M |
| 2020 | Hodder & Stoughton | – | 592 | OL29517192M |
| 2020 | Penguin Publishing Group | – | 896 | OL30192477M |
| 2020 | Hodder & Stoughton | – | 592 | OL29521448M |
| 2015 | Hodderscape | – | 592 | OL51999527M |
| 2010 | Ace Books | Paperback | 883 | OL26790943M |
| 2005 | Ace Trade | – | 544 | OL7524304M |
| 2005 | Ace Books | Hardcover | 528 | OL17952222M |
| 2003 | Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media | Unknown Binding | 535 | OL9477357M |
| 2002 | The Berkley Publishing Group | – | 563 | OL7524214M |
| 1999 | Tandem Library | School & Library Binding | 896 | OL8136410M |
| 1999 | Ace Books | – | 517 | OL118251M |
| 1987 | Berkley | Paperback | 535 | OL7502823M |
| 1987 | Ace Books | – | 535 | OL22597282M |
| 1984 | Putnam | – | 517 | OL22275832M |
| 1984 | Putnam Adult | – | 517 | OL7470646M |
| 1984 | Berkley | Paperback | 535 | OL7501953M |
| 1982 | Berkley Books | – | 533 | OL23743739M |
| 1978 | Berkley | – | 533 | OL7500941M |
| 1977 | Berkley Books | – | 535 | OL24949851M |
| 1974 | Gollancz | – | 430 | OL22347514M |
| 1974 | Ace Books | paperback | 544 | OL28415017M |
| 1972 | Chilton Book Company | – | 412 | OL20665557M |
| 1968 | Hodder and Stoughton | – | 605 | OL22041443M |
| 1966 | Gollancz | – | 445 | OL22497443M |
| 1965 | Chilton Books | Hardcover | 507 | OL13634897M |
| 1965 | Ace Books | – | 541 | OL26242482M |
| 1965 | Chilton Books | – | 412 | OL5949994M |
| 1965 | Chilton Book Company | – | 550 | OL58816437M |
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Questions
- How many pages is Dune?
- About 535 pages: that is the median of 29 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 412 to 896 pages.
- How long does it take to read Dune?
- About 9 h 26 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 19 days.
- How many words is Dune?
- Roughly 147,000 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).