Book · by James Baldwin · first published 1986
How many pages is If Beale Street Could Talk?
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin has a median of 224 pages across 13 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 208 to 229 pages.
How long will If Beale Street Could Talk take you?
Page count of every edition, by year
Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.
Editions counted
The 13 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 44 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Vintage | Paperback | 208 | OL9351254M |
| 2000 | Delta | – | 176 | OL7439324M |
| 1996 | G.K. Hall | – | 229 | OL977509M |
| 1994 | Penguin | – | 229 | OL20593417M |
| 1988 | Dell | – | 213 | OL18350256M |
| 1986 | Laurel | – | 224 | OL7520501M |
| 1975 | New American Library | – | 242 | OL20772469M |
| 1975 | Corgi | – | 173 | OL21735366M |
| 1974 | Dial Press | – | 213 | OL16588164M |
| 1974 | Dell Publishing | – | 226 | OL58668434M |
| 1974 | Dial Press | – | 197 | OL18318529M |
| 1974 | Joseph | – | 230 | OL5108443M |
| – | New American Library. | – | 242 | OL21309922M |
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All 7 books by James Baldwin with page counts
Questions
- How many pages is If Beale Street Could Talk?
- About 224 pages: that is the median of 13 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 173 to 242 pages.
- How long does it take to read If Beale Street Could Talk?
- About 3 h 57 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 8 days.
- How many words is If Beale Street Could Talk?
- Roughly 62,000 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)).