Book · by Yann Martel · first published 2001
How many pages is Life of Pi?
Life of Pi by Yann Martel has a median of 336 pages across 21 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 319 to 356 pages.
How long will Life of Pi take you?
Page count of every edition, by year
Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.
Editions counted
The 21 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 115 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Canongate Books | – | 336 | OL28648171M |
| 2011 | World Book night | – | 354 | OL43321327M |
| 2010 | Random House Large Print | – | 456 | OL27120156M |
| 2007 | Vintage Canada | Paperback | 480 | OL7695290M |
| 2007 | Harcourt Inc. | – | 315 | OL22768251M |
| 2007 | A.A. Knopf Canada | – | 315 | OL22766287M |
| 2007 | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company | – | 336 | OL29566587M |
| 2003 | Wheeler Pub. | – | 475 | OL3682599M |
| 2003 | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company | – | 336 | OL29591563M |
| 2003 | Canongate | – | 334 | OL25421210M |
| 2003 | Harcourt | – | 326 | OL19898603M |
| 2003 | Clipper Large Print | – | 418 | OL19855616M |
| 2002 | Canongate | – | 319 | OL21064690M |
| 2002 | Canongate | – | 319 | OL16010841M |
| 2002 | Harcourt | – | 319 | OL23246039M |
| 2002 | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company | – | 336 | OL29650360M |
| 2001 | Alfred A. Knopf Canada | – | 352 | OL19509049M |
| 2001 | Random House of Canada | – | 352 | OL25644277M |
| 2001 | Harcourt | – | 401 | OL22859344M |
| 2001 | Vintage | – | 356 | OL22253142M |
| 2001 | Harcourt | – | 319 | OL3949200M |
Questions
- How many pages is Life of Pi?
- About 336 pages: that is the median of 21 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 315 to 480 pages.
- How long does it take to read Life of Pi?
- About 5 h 55 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 12 days.
- How many words is Life of Pi?
- Roughly 92,000 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)).