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How many pages is Hercule Poirot's Christmas?

Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie has a median of 256 pages across 29 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 189 to 272 pages.

Median pages
256
29 editions counted
Range
167–416
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
4.5h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
70k
at 275 words per page

How long will Hercule Poirot's Christmas take you?

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Reading time
4 h 31 min
At 30 min a day
10 days
At 1 hour a day
5 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

200300400194019601980200020201939: 272 pages1939: 214 pages1939: 272 pages1944: 272 pages1957: 194 pages1967: 204 pages1969: 167 pages1969: 167 pages1969: 178 pages1972: 189 pages1973: 256 pages1975: 167 pages1978: 189 pages1980: 167 pages1980: 203 pages1987: 416 pages1987: 265 pages1992: 256 pages1998: 219 pages2000: 257 pages2007: 335 pages2007: 272 pages2008: 271 pages2014: 319 pages2015: 178 pages2018: 336 pages2021: 270 pages2024: 304 pagesmedian 256
200300400195020001939: 272 pages1939: 214 pages1939: 272 pages1944: 272 pages1957: 194 pages1967: 204 pages1969: 167 pages1969: 167 pages1969: 178 pages1972: 189 pages1973: 256 pages1975: 167 pages1978: 189 pages1980: 167 pages1980: 203 pages1987: 416 pages1987: 265 pages1992: 256 pages1998: 219 pages2000: 257 pages2007: 335 pages2007: 272 pages2008: 271 pages2014: 319 pages2015: 178 pages2018: 336 pages2021: 270 pages2024: 304 pagesmedian 256
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump). 1 edition without a publication year not plotted.

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
Hardcover34426 h 04 min
Mass market21223 h 44 min

Editions counted

The 29 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 110 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2024HarperCollins Publishers–304OL56872504M
2021Independently Published–270OL34312380M
2018HarperCollins Publishers Limited–336OL34640464M
2015CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform–178OL55785475M
2014––319OL27172448M
2008Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers–271OL24456094M
2007Harper–335OL30106723M
2007Black Dog & Leventhal PublishersHardcover272OL8756711M

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Questions

How many pages is Hercule Poirot's Christmas?
About 256 pages: that is the median of 29 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 167 to 416 pages.
How long does it take to read Hercule Poirot's Christmas?
About 4 h 31 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 10 days.
How many words is Hercule Poirot's Christmas?
Roughly 70,000 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)).