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Book · by J. K. Rowling · first published 1999

How many pages is Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban?

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling has a median of 435 pages across 36 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 317 to 471 pages.

Median pages
435
36 editions counted
Range
317–640
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
7.7h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
120k
at 275 words per page
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Reading time
7 h 40 min
At 30 min a day
16 days
At 1 hour a day
8 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

400600200020052010201520201999: 317 pages1999: 317 pages1999: 322 pages1999: 317 pages1999: 435 pages1999: 317 pages1999: 317 pages1999: 435 pages1999: 435 pages2000: 317 pages2000: 592 pages2000: 317 pages2001: 435 pages2001: 435 pages2002: 640 pages2003: 591 pages2004: 468 pages2004: 317 pages2004: 468 pages2005: 317 pages2007: 317 pages2007: 435 pages2013: 464 pages2013: 317 pages2014: 461 pages2017: 336 pages2017: 325 pages2017: 336 pages2018: 463 pages2018: 464 pages2019: 480 pages2019: 480 pages2019: 480 pages2019: 480 pages2019: 480 pages2023: 480 pagesmedian 435
4006002000201020201999: 317 pages1999: 317 pages1999: 322 pages1999: 317 pages1999: 435 pages1999: 317 pages1999: 317 pages1999: 435 pages1999: 435 pages2000: 317 pages2000: 592 pages2000: 317 pages2001: 435 pages2001: 435 pages2002: 640 pages2003: 591 pages2004: 468 pages2004: 317 pages2004: 468 pages2005: 317 pages2007: 317 pages2007: 435 pages2013: 464 pages2013: 317 pages2014: 461 pages2017: 336 pages2017: 325 pages2017: 336 pages2018: 463 pages2018: 464 pages2019: 480 pages2019: 480 pages2019: 480 pages2019: 480 pages2019: 480 pages2023: 480 pagesmedian 435
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
Hardcover32295 h 41 min
Paperback448127 h 54 min

Editions counted

The 36 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 279 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2023Scholastic, Incorporated–480OL46110388M
2019Bloomsbury Publishing Plc–480OL28932541M
2019Bloomsbury Publishing Plc–480OL28926273M
2019Bloomsbury Publishing Plc–480OL28913765M
2019Bloomsbury Publishing Plc–480OL28939114M
2019Bloomsbury Publishing Plc–480OL28926274M
2018Bloomsburypaperback463OL28696528M
2018Scholastic Inc.Paperback464OL26821544M

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Questions

How many pages is Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban?
About 435 pages: that is the median of 36 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 317 to 640 pages.
How long does it take to read Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban?
About 7 h 40 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 16 days.
How many words is Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban?
Roughly 120,000 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).