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Book · by Enid Blyton · first published 1997

How many pages is Five on a Treasure Island?

Five on a Treasure Island by Enid Blyton has a median of 192 pages across 27 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 183 to 192 pages.

Median pages
192
27 editions counted
Range
119–300
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
3.4h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
53k
at 275 words per page
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Reading time
3 h 23 min
At 30 min a day
7 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.

10020030019601980200020201942: 184 pages1942: 184 pages1950: 300 pages1953: 192 pages1972: 189 pages1978: 192 pages1985: 225 pages1985: 232 pages1990: 168 pages1991: 157 pages1992: 160 pages1993: 185 pages1995: 157 pages1997: 192 pages1999: 183 pages2001: 256 pages2006: 198 pages2009: 183 pages2012: 184 pages2015: 192 pages2015: 208 pages2016: 192 pages2016: 182 pages2017: 192 pages2017: 192 pages2021: 119 pagesmedian 192
100200300195020001942: 184 pages1942: 184 pages1950: 300 pages1953: 192 pages1972: 189 pages1978: 192 pages1985: 225 pages1985: 232 pages1990: 168 pages1991: 157 pages1992: 160 pages1993: 185 pages1995: 157 pages1997: 192 pages1999: 183 pages2001: 256 pages2006: 198 pages2009: 183 pages2012: 184 pages2015: 192 pages2015: 208 pages2016: 192 pages2016: 182 pages2017: 192 pages2017: 192 pages2021: 119 pagesmedian 192
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump). 1 edition without a publication year not plotted.

Pages by format

Hardcover, paperback and mass-market editions are typeset differently, so the same text can run to more or fewer pages.

FormatMedian pagesEditionsReading time
Hardcover18433 h 15 min
Paperback19253 h 23 min

Editions counted

The 27 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 2 more editions were 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 85 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2021Independently Published–119OL34195204M
2017Hachette Children's Group–192OL28621232M
2017Hodder Children's Books–192OL33945406M
2016Hachette Children's Group–192OL33852280M
2016Hodder Children's Books–182OL44777842M
2015Hodder Children's Books–192OL33727904M
2015Hachette Children's Group–208OL29278645M
2012Hodder Children's Books–184OL28190797M

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Questions

How many pages is Five on a Treasure Island?
About 192 pages: that is the median of 27 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 119 to 300 pages.
How long does it take to read Five on a Treasure Island?
About 3 h 23 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 7 days.
How many words is Five on a Treasure Island?
Roughly 53,000 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).