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Book · by Chuck Palahniuk · first published 1996

How many pages is Fight Club?

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk has a median of 208 pages across 11 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 208 to 224 pages.

Median pages
208
11 editions counted
Range
199–224
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
3.7h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
57k
at 275 words per page

How long will Fight Club 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
3 h 40 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.

2002102202302000200520101996: 208 pages1997: 208 pages1997: 208 pages1997: 224 pages1997: 208 pages1999: 208 pages2004: 224 pages2004: 199 pages2005: 224 pages2005: 224 pages2011: 224 pagesmedian 208
2002102202302000200520101996: 208 pages1997: 208 pages1997: 208 pages1997: 224 pages1997: 208 pages1999: 208 pages2004: 224 pages2004: 199 pages2005: 224 pages2005: 224 pages2011: 224 pagesmedian 208
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 11 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 40 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2011Penguin Random House–224OL33413724M
2005Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.–224OL29592638M
2005W. W. Norton–224OL7457760M
2004Owl BooksPaperback224OL7933051M
2004Holt PaperbacksPaperback199OL7933057M
1999Owl BooksPaperback208OL7932557M
1997Henry Holt–208OL673896M
1997Random House Australia–208OL28427572M

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Questions

How many pages is Fight Club?
About 208 pages: that is the median of 11 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 199 to 224 pages.
How long does it take to read Fight Club?
About 3 h 40 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 8 days.
How many words is Fight Club?
Roughly 57,000 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)).