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How many pages is Ender's Shadow?

Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card has a median of 384 pages across 9 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 379 to 480 pages.

Median pages
384
9 editions counted
Range
379–559
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
6.8h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
106k
at 275 words per page
Book 1 of Shadow hexalogy
Series in order

How long will Ender's Shadow take you?

Starts at the fiction average of 260 words per minute and 275 words per page. Move the slider to your own speed.

Reading time
6 h 46 min
At 30 min a day
14 days
At 1 hour a day
7 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

4005002000200520101999: 379 pages1999: 379 pages2000: 480 pages2002: 480 pages2002: 384 pages2009: 559 pages2011: 384 pages2013: 444 pages2013: 379 pagesmedian 384
4005002000200520101999: 379 pages1999: 379 pages2000: 480 pages2002: 480 pages2002: 384 pages2009: 559 pages2011: 384 pages2013: 444 pages2013: 379 pagesmedian 384
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 9 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 33 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2013Torpaperback444OL27949004M
2013TOR–379OL30960979M
2011Little, Brown Book Group Limited–384OL33418538M
2009OrbitPaperback559OL8998965M
2002StarscapePaperback480OL8053817M
2002Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom–384OL29572894M
2000TorMass Market Paperback480OL9511918M
1999Tor–379OL33898553M

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Questions

How many pages is Ender's Shadow?
About 384 pages: that is the median of 9 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 379 to 559 pages.
How long does it take to read Ender's Shadow?
About 6 h 46 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 14 days.
How many words is Ender's Shadow?
Roughly 106,000 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).