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How many pages is Interesting Times?

Interesting Times by Terry Pratchett has a median of 352 pages across 11 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 316 to 410 pages.

Median pages
352
11 editions counted
Range
283–432
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
6.2h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
97k
at 275 words per page
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How long will Interesting Times take you?

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Reading time
6 h 12 min
At 30 min a day
13 days
At 1 hour a day
7 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

30035040045019952000200520101994: 283 pages1994: 352 pages1994: 295 pages1995: 351 pages1996: 404 pages1997: 295 pages1998: 400 pages2005: 336 pages2008: 432 pages2013: 432 pages2014: 416 pagesmedian 352
300350400450200020101994: 283 pages1994: 352 pages1994: 295 pages1995: 351 pages1996: 404 pages1997: 295 pages1998: 400 pages2005: 336 pages2008: 432 pages2013: 432 pages2014: 416 pagesmedian 352
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
Paperback34426 h 04 min
Mass market40827 h 12 min

Editions counted

The 11 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 1 more edition was 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 45 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2014Harpermass market paperback416OL28124966M
2013Penguin Random House–432OL28495408M
2008Transworld Publishers Limited–432OL33392286M
2005CorgiPaperback336OL7815529M
1998HarperPrismMass Market Paperback400OL9241844M
1997Victor GollanczHardcover295OL9241698M
1996ISIS Large Print–404OL17189984M
1995Corgi–351OL16264705M

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Questions

How many pages is Interesting Times?
About 352 pages: that is the median of 11 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 283 to 432 pages.
How long does it take to read Interesting Times?
About 6 h 12 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 13 days.
How many words is Interesting Times?
Roughly 97,000 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).