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How many pages is Last Argument of Kings?

Last Argument of Kings by Joe Abercrombie has a median of 656 pages across 5 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 639 to 688 pages.

Median pages
656
5 editions counted
Range
544–704
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
12h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
180k
at 275 words per page
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Reading time
11 h 34 min
At 30 min a day
24 days
At 1 hour a day
12 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

6007002008201020122014201620182008: 639 pages2008: 544 pages2009: 704 pages2015: 656 pages2018: 688 pagesmedian 656
600700201020152008: 639 pages2008: 544 pages2009: 704 pages2015: 656 pages2018: 688 pagesmedian 656
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 5 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 19 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2018Gollanczhardcover688OL28316433M
2015Orbitpaperback656OL27259664M
2009Orion Publishing Group, Limited–704OL28439427M
2008Pyr Books–639OL24981613M
2008Gollanczpaperback544OL28974438M

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Questions

How many pages is Last Argument of Kings?
About 656 pages: that is the median of 5 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 544 to 704 pages.
How long does it take to read Last Argument of Kings?
About 11 h 34 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 24 days.
How many words is Last Argument of Kings?
Roughly 180,000 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).