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How many pages is Love Medicine?

Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich has a median of 340 pages across 16 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 274 to 367 pages.

Median pages
340
16 editions counted
Range
272–400
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
6.0h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
94k
at 275 words per page

How long will Love Medicine take you?

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Reading time
6 h
At 30 min a day
13 days
At 1 hour a day
7 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

3003504001990200020101984: 275 pages1985: 272 pages1985: 275 pages1986: 348 pages1986: 272 pages1987: 272 pages1989: 272 pages1990: 288 pages1993: 384 pages1993: 367 pages1994: 367 pages2001: 367 pages2005: 400 pages2005: 367 pages2009: 333 pages2013: 400 pagesmedian 340
3003504001990200020101984: 275 pages1985: 272 pages1985: 275 pages1986: 348 pages1986: 272 pages1987: 272 pages1989: 272 pages1990: 288 pages1993: 384 pages1993: 367 pages1994: 367 pages2001: 367 pages2005: 400 pages2005: 367 pages2009: 333 pages2013: 400 pagesmedian 340
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 16 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 46 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2013HarperCollins Publishers Limited–400OL34468645M
2009HarperCollins Publishers–333OL23058747M
2005Tandem LibraryLibrary Binding400OL11763139M
2005Harper Perennial Modern ClassicsPaperback367OL9236438M
2001Perennial–367OL18141691M
1994Flamingo–367OL22380277M
1993Harper Perennial–384OL7285996M
1993H. Holt–367OL1406828M

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Questions

How many pages is Love Medicine?
About 340 pages: that is the median of 16 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 272 to 400 pages.
How long does it take to read Love Medicine?
About 6 h at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 13 days.
How many words is Love Medicine?
Roughly 94,000 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)).