Book · by 村上春樹 · first published 2005
How many pages is Kafka on the Shore?
Kafka on the Shore by 村上春樹 has a median of 480 pages across 9 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 448 to 512 pages.
How long will Kafka on the Shore take you?
Page count of every edition, by year
Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.
Pages by format
Hardcover, paperback and mass-market editions are typeset differently, so the same text can run to more or fewer pages.
| Format | Median pages | Editions | Reading time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 448 | 3 | 7 h 54 min |
| Paperback | 480 | 3 | 8 h 28 min |
Editions counted
The 9 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 61 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Penguin Random House | – | 512 | OL34464368M |
| 2006 | Vintage | Paperback | 480 | OL24196633M |
| 2005 | Alfred A Knopf | Paperback | 512 | OL9273065M |
| 2005 | The Harvill Press | Hardcover | 656 | OL8931327M |
| 2005 | Knopf | Hardcover | 448 | OL8363016M |
| 2005 | Harvill Press | – | 505 | OL22613913M |
| 2005 | Knopf | Hardcover | 448 | OL24196634M |
| 2005 | Vintage International | Paperback | 480 | OL8364133M |
| 2005 | Vintage (Rand) | Mass Market Paperback | 448 | OL9453775M |
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Questions
- How many pages is Kafka on the Shore?
- About 480 pages: that is the median of 9 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 448 to 656 pages.
- How long does it take to read Kafka on the Shore?
- About 8 h 28 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 17 days.
- How many words is Kafka on the Shore?
- Roughly 132,000 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)).