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How many pages is Elephants Can Remember?

Elephants Can Remember by Agatha Christie has a median of 241 pages across 28 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 222 to 258 pages.

Median pages
241
28 editions counted
Range
160–368
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
4.2h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
66k
at 275 words per page

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Reading time
4 h 15 min
At 30 min a day
9 days
At 1 hour a day
5 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

2003001980200020201972: 262 pages1972: 243 pages1972: 243 pages1972: 242 pages1972: 243 pages1972: 256 pages1973: 262 pages1973: 237 pages1973: 237 pages1973: 362 pages1973: 237 pages1974: 237 pages1974: 242 pages1975: 160 pages1979: 237 pages1981: 175 pages1983: 160 pages1984: 212 pages1984: 224 pages1990: 316 pages1990: 218 pages1992: 352 pages1992: 368 pages2014: 287 pages2015: 164 pages2016: 256 pages2024: 240 pagesmedian 241
2003001980200020201972: 262 pages1972: 243 pages1972: 243 pages1972: 242 pages1972: 243 pages1972: 256 pages1973: 262 pages1973: 237 pages1973: 237 pages1973: 362 pages1973: 237 pages1974: 237 pages1974: 242 pages1975: 160 pages1979: 237 pages1981: 175 pages1983: 160 pages1984: 212 pages1984: 224 pages1990: 316 pages1990: 218 pages1992: 352 pages1992: 368 pages2014: 287 pages2015: 164 pages2016: 256 pages2024: 240 pagesmedian 241
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump). 1 edition without a publication year not plotted.

Editions counted

The 28 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 110 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2024HarperCollins Publishers–240OL56872082M
2016HarperCollins Publishers–256OL34526309M
2015CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform–164OL54967390M
2014Center Point Large Print–287OL31021148M
1992Thorpe–352OL22632832M
1992UlverscroftHardcover368OL11233493M
1990G.K. Hall–316OL2205117M
1990Collins–218OL20994061M

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Questions

How many pages is Elephants Can Remember?
About 241 pages: that is the median of 28 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 160 to 368 pages.
How long does it take to read Elephants Can Remember?
About 4 h 15 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 9 days.
How many words is Elephants Can Remember?
Roughly 66,000 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)).