Book · by Maya Angelou
How many pages is I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings?
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou has a median of 281 pages across 25 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 246 to 304 pages.
How long will I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings take you?
Page count of every edition, by year
Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.
Pages by format
Hardcover, paperback and mass-market editions are typeset differently, so the same text can run to more or fewer pages.
| Format | Median pages | Editions | Reading time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 332 | 2 | 6 h 24 min |
| Paperback | 306 | 4 | 5 h 54 min |
| Mass market | 256 | 3 | 4 h 56 min |
Editions counted
The 25 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 2 more editions were set aside because the page count was less than half or more than 2.2 times the median, which usually means an abridged text, an omnibus, or a typing error. Open Library lists 81 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Little, Brown Book Group Limited | – | 320 | OL29237841M |
| 2010 | Little, Brown Book Group Limited | – | 320 | OL33399468M |
| 2009 | Random House Trade Paperbacks | – | 304 | OL37041857M |
| 2002 | Random House | – | 281 | OL3950085M |
| 1999 | Tandem Library | School & Library Binding | 304 | OL7973515M |
| 1997 | Bantam | Paperback | 304 | OL7826451M |
| 1995 | Trans-Atlantic Publications | Paperback | 308 | OL7964515M |
| 1993 | Virago Books | Paperback | 320 | OL8306676M |
| 1993 | Bantam Books | – | 246 | OL21314690M |
| 1993 | Book-of-the-Month Club | – | 281 | OL16939111M |
| 1988 | Bantam Books | – | 246 | OL22813167M |
| 1988 | Hutchinson | – | 281 | OL20988384M |
| 1985 | Bantam | Mass Market Paperback | 246 | OL7822660M |
| 1985 | G K Hall & Co | Hardcover | 360 | OL9719556M |
| 1983 | Bantam Books | Mass Market Paperback | 256 | OL10634412M |
| 1983 | Bantam | Mass Market Paperback | 304 | OL7824363M |
| 1982 | Ballantine Books (P) | Paperback | 246 | OL7820903M |
| 1980 | Bantam Books | – | 246 | OL18335371M |
| 1973 | Random House | – | 288 | OL27013853M |
| 1971 | Bantam Books | – | 246 | OL45552420M |
| 1971 | Bantam Books | – | 246 | OL37041887M |
| 1971 | Bantam Books | – | 246 | OL20870136M |
| 1970 | Random House | – | 281 | OL5437047M |
| 1969 | Random House | – | 281 | OL58092611M |
| 1969 | Random House | – | 281 | OL37041883M |
Questions
- How many pages is I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings?
- About 281 pages: that is the median of 25 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 246 to 360 pages.
- How long does it take to read I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings?
- About 5 h 25 min at 238 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 11 days.
- How many words is I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings?
- Roughly 77,000 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)).