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How many pages is Guards! Guards!?

Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett has a median of 355 pages across 15 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 315 to 416 pages.

Median pages
355
15 editions counted
Range
288–432
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
6.3h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
98k
at 275 words per page
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Reading time
6 h 15 min
At 30 min a day
13 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.

30035040045019902000201020201989: 288 pages1989: 288 pages1989: 294 pages1990: 412 pages1991: 350 pages1997: 288 pages2001: 384 pages2001: 384 pages2001: 355 pages2005: 419 pages2008: 432 pages2012: 432 pages2019: 432 pages2020: 336 pages2020: 336 pagesmedian 355
300350400450200020201989: 288 pages1989: 288 pages1989: 294 pages1990: 412 pages1991: 350 pages1997: 288 pages2001: 384 pages2001: 384 pages2001: 355 pages2005: 419 pages2008: 432 pages2012: 432 pages2019: 432 pages2020: 336 pages2020: 336 pagesmedian 355
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

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
Hardcover28825 h 05 min
Paperback41627 h 19 min

Editions counted

The 15 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 58 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2020Orion Publishing Group, Limited–336OL29496211M
2020Orion Publishing Group, Limited–336OL29522629M
2019Corgi Books–432OL28600023M
2012Penguin Random House–432OL28477026M
2008Transworld Publishers Limited–432OL33414401M
2005CorgiPaperback419OL7815508M
2001Tandem Library–384OL7600765M
2001HarperTorchMass Market Paperback384OL9241406M

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Questions

How many pages is Guards! Guards!?
About 355 pages: that is the median of 15 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 288 to 432 pages.
How long does it take to read Guards! Guards!?
About 6 h 15 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 13 days.
How many words is Guards! Guards!?
Roughly 98,000 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).