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How many pages is Island?

Island by Aldous Huxley has a median of 295 pages across 17 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 295 to 304 pages.

Median pages
295
17 editions counted
Range
279–354
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
5.2h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
81k
at 275 words per page

How long will Island take you?

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Reading time
5 h 12 min
At 30 min a day
11 days
At 1 hour a day
6 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

27530032535019701980199020001962: 286 pages1962: 335 pages1962: 335 pages1962: 286 pages1963: 295 pages1963: 295 pages1963: 295 pages1964: 297 pages1968: 295 pages1969: 279 pages1972: 295 pages1976: 336 pages1980: 291 pages1989: 295 pages1989: 295 pages2002: 354 pages2008: 304 pagesmedian 295
275300325350198020001962: 286 pages1962: 335 pages1962: 335 pages1962: 286 pages1963: 295 pages1963: 295 pages1963: 295 pages1964: 297 pages1968: 295 pages1969: 279 pages1972: 295 pages1976: 336 pages1980: 291 pages1989: 295 pages1989: 295 pages2002: 354 pages2008: 304 pagesmedian 295
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 17 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 33 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2008Vintage Books–304OL7318851M
2002Perennial–354OL22820779M
1989Harper Perennial–295OL7282245M
1989Harper & Row–295OL23377016M
1980Longman–291OL22788300M
1976Triad/Panther–336OL4596713M
1972Harper & Row–295OL22615591M
1969Distributed by Heron Books–279OL5515866M

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Questions

How many pages is Island?
About 295 pages: that is the median of 17 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 279 to 354 pages.
How long does it take to read Island?
About 5 h 12 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 11 days.
How many words is Island?
Roughly 81,000 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)).