Book · by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
How many pages is Half of a Yellow Sun?
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has a median of 448 pages across 14 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 433 to 519 pages.
How long will Half of a Yellow Sun 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 | 448 | 3 | 7 h 54 min |
| Paperback | 440 | 6 | 7 h 46 min |
Editions counted
The 14 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 43 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 4th Estate | paperback | 433 | OL28716216M |
| 2014 | Fourth Estate | Paperback | 433 | OL28419737M |
| 2009 | HarperCollins Publishers Limited | – | 544 | OL34427774M |
| 2007 | Harper Perennial | Paperback | 448 | OL26387750M |
| 2007 | Harper Perennial | – | 448 | OL50496670M |
| 2007 | Anchor Books / Random House | Paperback | 543 | OL8364510M |
| 2007 | Harper Perennial | paperback | 433 | OL51310539M |
| 2007 | Vintage Canada | Paperback | 560 | OL9853209M |
| 2006 | Alfred A. Knopf | Hardcover | 435 | OL8363026M |
| 2006 | Fourth Estate Ltd | Hardcover | 448 | OL9218657M |
| 2006 | Farafina | – | 433 | OL30494163M |
| 2006 | HarperCollins Publishers Limited | – | 352 | OL34412577M |
| 2006 | W.F. Howes Ltd. | – | 709 | OL28287554M |
| 2006 | Knopf Canada | Hardcover | 448 | OL7695259M |
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Questions
- How many pages is Half of a Yellow Sun?
- About 448 pages: that is the median of 14 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 352 to 709 pages.
- How long does it take to read Half of a Yellow Sun?
- About 7 h 54 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 16 days.
- How many words is Half of a Yellow Sun?
- Roughly 123,000 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)).