Book · by Stephen King · first published 1998
How many pages is Firestarter?
Firestarter by Stephen King has a median of 422 pages across 20 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 396 to 512 pages.
How long will Firestarter 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 | 400 | 2 | 7 h 03 min |
| Paperback | 512 | 4 | 9 h 02 min |
| Mass market | 403 | 3 | 7 h 06 min |
Editions counted
The 20 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 78 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Gallery Books | paperback | 512 | OL37071274M |
| 2018 | Gallery Books | paperback | 512 | OL27271300M |
| 2016 | Scribner | – | 400 | OL34011547M |
| 2011 | Taylor & Francis Group | – | 576 | OL33480322M |
| 2010 | Hodder & Stoughton | – | 300 | OL53245882M |
| 2003 | Signet | – | 416 | OL7573033M |
| 1994 | Plume | Paperback | 382 | OL839200M |
| 1991 | Futura | Paperback | 512 | OL7777728M |
| 1986 | New American Library | mass market paperback | 403 | OL7572267M |
| 1982 | Charnwood | – | 632 | OL22607597M |
| 1981 | New American Library | Mass Market Paperback | 403 | OL28039433M |
| 1981 | New American Library | Mass Market Paperback | 404 | OL24207119M |
| 1981 | Little, Brown Book Group Limited | – | 512 | OL33346663M |
| 1981 | Macdonald Futura | – | 510 | OL22381275M |
| 1980 | Viking Press | Hardcover | 428 | OL35674734M |
| 1980 | Book Club Associates | – | 428 | OL53218599M |
| 1980 | Book Club Associates | – | 428 | OL17308012M |
| 1980 | Viking Press | – | 371 | OL22859622M |
| 1980 | Viking Press | Hardcover | 371 | OL24374486M |
| 1980 | Viking Press | – | 371 | OL53218487M |
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Questions
- How many pages is Firestarter?
- About 422 pages: that is the median of 20 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 300 to 632 pages.
- How long does it take to read Firestarter?
- About 7 h 26 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 15 days.
- How many words is Firestarter?
- Roughly 116,000 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)).