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How many pages is Hard Luck?

Hard Luck by Jeff Kinney has a median of 226 pages across 6 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 224 to 229 pages.

Median pages
226
6 editions counted
Range
217–248
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
4.0h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
62k
at 275 words per page
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How long will Hard Luck take you?

Starts at the fiction average of 260 words per minute and 275 words per page. Move the slider to your own speed.

Reading time
3 h 59 min
At 30 min a day
8 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.

220230240250201320142015201620172013: 224 pages2013: 224 pages2013: 228 pages2016: 248 pages2017: 229 pagesmedian 226
220230240250201420162013: 224 pages2013: 224 pages2013: 228 pages2016: 248 pages2017: 229 pagesmedian 226
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump). 1 edition without a publication year not plotted.

Editions counted

The 6 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 49 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2017Thorndike Press–229OL28848978M
2016PUFFIN BOOKSPaperback248OL28743337M
2013Bound to Stay Bound Books–224OL53351569M
2013Penguin Random House–224OL28513355M
2013Penguin Random House–228OL28510648M
–Amulet BooksHardcover217OL25435795M

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Questions

How many pages is Hard Luck?
About 226 pages: that is the median of 6 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 217 to 248 pages.
How long does it take to read Hard Luck?
About 3 h 59 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 8 days.
How many words is Hard Luck?
Roughly 62,000 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).