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How many pages is Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince?

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling has a median of 652 pages across 23 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 584 to 691 pages.

Median pages
652
23 editions counted
Range
542–1,008
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
11h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
179k
at 275 words per page
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Reading time
11 h 30 min
At 30 min a day
23 days
At 1 hour a day
12 days

Page count of every edition, by year

Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.

6008001,00020052010201520202005: 652 pages2005: 607 pages2005: 831 pages2005: 607 pages2005: 607 pages2005: 608 pages2005: 652 pages2005: 1,008 pages2006: 652 pages2006: 768 pages2006: 768 pages2006: 652 pages2008: 730 pages2008: 730 pages2013: 652 pages2014: 542 pages2015: 652 pages2018: 608 pages2021: 560 pages2021: 560 pages2021: 560 pages2021: 560 pages2021: 560 pagesmedian 652
6008001,000201020202005: 652 pages2005: 607 pages2005: 831 pages2005: 607 pages2005: 607 pages2005: 608 pages2005: 652 pages2005: 1,008 pages2006: 652 pages2006: 768 pages2006: 768 pages2006: 652 pages2008: 730 pages2008: 730 pages2013: 652 pages2014: 542 pages2015: 652 pages2018: 608 pages2021: 560 pages2021: 560 pages2021: 560 pages2021: 560 pages2021: 560 pagesmedian 652
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
Hardcover608610 h 43 min
Paperback652611 h 30 min

Editions counted

The 23 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 177 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2021Bloomsbury Publishing Plc–560OL33805525M
2021Bloomsbury Publishing Plc–560OL33805527M
2021Bloomsbury Publishing Plc–560OL33805524M
2021Bloomsbury Publishing Plc–560OL33805528M
2021Bloomsbury Publishing Plc–560OL33805526M
2018Bloomsbury Publishing Plc–608OL28696530M
2015BloomsburyPaperback652OL26423923M
2014BloomsburyPaperback542OL26424053M

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Questions

How many pages is Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince?
About 652 pages: that is the median of 23 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 542 to 1,008 pages.
How long does it take to read Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince?
About 11 h 30 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 23 days.
How many words is Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince?
Roughly 179,000 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).