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How many pages is Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets?

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling has a median of 341 pages across 39 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 257 to 370 pages.

Median pages
341
39 editions counted
Range
251–506
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
6.0h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
94k
at 275 words per page
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Reading time
6 h 01 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.

300400500200020052010201520201998: 251 pages1998: 256 pages1998: 258 pages1999: 251 pages1999: 341 pages1999: 341 pages1999: 256 pages1999: 341 pages1999: 341 pages2000: 341 pages2000: 251 pages2000: 251 pages2000: 464 pages2000: 341 pages2002: 352 pages2002: 433 pages2002: 506 pages2003: 464 pages2004: 366 pages2004: 366 pages2004: 366 pages2006: 352 pages2007: 341 pages2008: 251 pages2010: 251 pages2013: 368 pages2013: 251 pages2013: 256 pages2014: 386 pages2014: 360 pages2016: 259 pages2016: 259 pages2016: 259 pages2018: 384 pages2018: 372 pages2018: 384 pages2019: 272 pages2021: 400 pages2021: 464 pagesmedian 341
3004005002000201020201998: 251 pages1998: 256 pages1998: 258 pages1999: 251 pages1999: 341 pages1999: 341 pages1999: 256 pages1999: 341 pages1999: 341 pages2000: 341 pages2000: 251 pages2000: 251 pages2000: 464 pages2000: 341 pages2002: 352 pages2002: 433 pages2002: 506 pages2003: 464 pages2004: 366 pages2004: 366 pages2004: 366 pages2006: 352 pages2007: 341 pages2008: 251 pages2010: 251 pages2013: 368 pages2013: 251 pages2013: 256 pages2014: 386 pages2014: 360 pages2016: 259 pages2016: 259 pages2016: 259 pages2018: 384 pages2018: 372 pages2018: 384 pages2019: 272 pages2021: 400 pages2021: 464 pagesmedian 341
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
Hardcover341116 h 01 min
Paperback341156 h 01 min

Editions counted

The 39 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 306 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2021Scholastic Inc.hardcover400OL32067477M
2021Large Print Presspaperback464OL48061946M
2019Bloomsbury Publishing Plc–272OL28901511M
2018Bloomsbury Publishing Plc–384OL28648034M
2018Bloomsbury Children's Bookspaperback372OL27318285M
2018Bloomsbury Publishing Plc–384OL28648030M
2016BloomsburyHardcover259OL26386068M
2016Bound to Stay Bound Books–259OL53339152M

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Questions

How many pages is Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets?
About 341 pages: that is the median of 39 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 251 to 506 pages.
How long does it take to read Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets?
About 6 h 01 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 13 days.
How many words is Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets?
Roughly 94,000 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).