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How many pages is I Shall Wear Midnight?

I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett has a median of 432 pages across 9 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 414 to 448 pages.

Median pages
432
9 editions counted
Range
272–464
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
7.6h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
119k
at 275 words per page
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How long will I Shall Wear Midnight take you?

Starts at the fiction average of 260 words per minute and 275 words per page. Move the slider to your own speed.

Reading time
7 h 37 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.

300400201020122015201720202010: 464 pages2010: 272 pages2010: 432 pages2010: 400 pages2011: 414 pages2015: 464 pages2017: 448 pages2017: 432 pages2021: 432 pagesmedian 432
3004002010201520202010: 464 pages2010: 272 pages2010: 432 pages2010: 400 pages2011: 414 pages2015: 464 pages2017: 448 pages2017: 432 pages2021: 432 pagesmedian 432
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
Hardcover33625 h 55 min
Paperback43927 h 44 min

Editions counted

The 9 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 31 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2021Random House Children's Books–432OL33853792M
2017Corgi Books–448OL28634086M
2017Random House Children's Books–432OL28634088M
2015Harperpaperback464OL32185133M
2011Corgi BooksPaperback414OL25218346M
2010HarperCollins Publishers Limited–464OL29592116M
2010HarperHardcover272OL24086876M
2010Random House Children's Books–432OL33404599M

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Questions

How many pages is I Shall Wear Midnight?
About 432 pages: that is the median of 9 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 272 to 464 pages.
How long does it take to read I Shall Wear Midnight?
About 7 h 37 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 16 days.
How many words is I Shall Wear Midnight?
Roughly 119,000 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).