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Book · by Italo Calvino · first published 1998

How many pages is Invisible Cities?

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino has a median of 165 pages across 9 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 164 to 165 pages.

Median pages
165
9 editions counted
Range
126–176
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
2.9h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
45k
at 275 words per page

How long will Invisible Cities 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
2 h 55 min
At 30 min a day
6 days
At 1 hour a day
3 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

12014016018019801990200020101972: 165 pages1974: 165 pages1978: 165 pages1979: 126 pages1997: 176 pages1997: 165 pages1999: 164 pages2010: 160 pages2013: 176 pagesmedian 165
120140160180198020001972: 165 pages1974: 165 pages1978: 165 pages1979: 126 pages1997: 176 pages1997: 165 pages1999: 164 pages2010: 160 pages2013: 176 pagesmedian 165
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 9 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 45 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2013Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company–176OL29667512M
2010Penguin Random House–160OL33395547M
1999Arion PressHardcover164OL8296990M
1997Vintage Classics–176OL7317781M
1997MandarinPaperback165OL7966738M
1979Pan Books–126OL14644205M
1978Harcourt Brace Jovanovich–165OL4547791M
1974Harcourt Brace Jovanovich–165OL5048157M

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Questions

How many pages is Invisible Cities?
About 165 pages: that is the median of 9 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 126 to 176 pages.
How long does it take to read Invisible Cities?
About 2 h 55 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 6 days.
How many words is Invisible Cities?
Roughly 45,000 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)).