Book · by John Green · first published 2005
How many pages is Looking for Alaska?
Looking for Alaska by John Green has a median of 272 pages across 16 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 247 to 304 pages.
How long will Looking for Alaska 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 | 256 | 2 | 4 h 31 min |
| Paperback | 288 | 3 | 5 h 05 min |
Editions counted
The 16 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 69 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | HarperCollins Canada, Limited | – | 272 | OL57547662M |
| 2025 | HarperCollins Canada, Limited | – | 272 | OL57557087M |
| 2023 | Penguin Young Readers Group | – | 272 | OL42834099M |
| 2019 | Penguin Books | – | 272 | OL28915256M |
| 2019 | HarperCollinsChildren'sBooks | paperback | 288 | OL30531989M |
| 2018 | Dutton Books for Young Readers | paperback | 504 | OL27361571M |
| 2015 | Thorndike Press | library binding | 353 | OL27289619M |
| 2015 | Dutton Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC | – | 350 | OL32768394M |
| 2015 | HarperCollins Publishers Limited | – | 356 | OL28557521M |
| 2011 | HarperCollins Children's Books | – | 272 | OL26934445M |
| 2007 | Tandem Library | Unknown Binding | 221 | OL8459611M |
| 2007 | Speak | – | 256 | OL7360666M |
| 2006 | Penguin Publishing Group | – | 221 | OL44247239M |
| 2006 | Penguin Young Readers Group | – | 256 | OL34134493M |
| 2005 | Dutton Children's Books | paperback | 221 | OL3292596M |
| 2005 | Dutton Books | Hardcover | 160 | OL46961614M |
More by John Green
All 4 books by John Green with page counts
Questions
- How many pages is Looking for Alaska?
- About 272 pages: that is the median of 16 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 160 to 504 pages.
- How long does it take to read Looking for Alaska?
- About 4 h 48 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 10 days.
- How many words is Looking for Alaska?
- Roughly 75,000 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)).