Book · by Jared Diamond · first published 1997
How many pages is Guns, Germs, and Steel?
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond has a median of 523 pages across 10 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 484 to 528 pages.
How long will Guns, Germs, and Steel take you?
Page count of every edition, by year
Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.
Editions counted
The 10 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 1 more edition was 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 61 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Penguin Random House | – | 656 | OL28645259M |
| 2017 | Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. | – | 528 | OL29758943M |
| 2017 | W. W. Norton & Company | paperback | 528 | OL27413716M |
| 2013 | Penguin Random House | – | 592 | OL29172299M |
| 2005 | Norton | – | 518 | OL3437340M |
| 2003 | W. W. Norton | Paperback | 494 | OL18791934M |
| 1999 | Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. | – | 528 | OL29592491M |
| 1999 | W. W. Norton | Paperback | 480 | OL24732786M |
| 1997 | W. W. Norton & Company | – | 480 | OL39467226M |
| 1997 | Jonathan Cape | – | 480 | OL18642726M |
Questions
- How many pages is Guns, Germs, and Steel?
- About 523 pages: that is the median of 10 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 480 to 656 pages.
- How long does it take to read Guns, Germs, and Steel?
- About 10 h 04 min at 238 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 21 days.
- How many words is Guns, Germs, and Steel?
- Roughly 144,000 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)).