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How many pages is Many Waters?

Many Waters by Madeleine L'Engle has a median of 310 pages across 11 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 310 to 335 pages.

Median pages
310
11 editions counted
Range
310–357
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
5.5h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
85k
at 275 words per page
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Starts at the fiction average of 260 words per minute and 275 words per page. Move the slider to your own speed.

Reading time
5 h 28 min
At 30 min a day
11 days
At 1 hour a day
6 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

32034036019901995200020051986: 357 pages1986: 310 pages1986: 334 pages1986: 310 pages1986: 310 pages1987: 310 pages1987: 310 pages1987: 336 pages1992: 310 pages1998: 336 pages2007: 324 pagesmedian 310
320340360199020001986: 357 pages1986: 310 pages1986: 334 pages1986: 310 pages1986: 310 pages1987: 310 pages1987: 310 pages1987: 336 pages1992: 310 pages1998: 336 pages2007: 324 pagesmedian 310
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 11 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 26 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2007Square FishMass Market Paperback324OL9885798M
1998Laurel Leaf–336OL7519992M
1992Hodder & Stoughton–310OL21318726M
1987Dell–310OL17838959M
1987Dell Publishing, a div. of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Paperback310OL13592480M
1987A Yearling Book–336OL7520978M
1986Farrar, Straus, Giroux–357OL22764510M
1986Farrar, Straus, Giroux–310OL24911218M

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Questions

How many pages is Many Waters?
About 310 pages: that is the median of 11 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 310 to 357 pages.
How long does it take to read Many Waters?
About 5 h 28 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 11 days.
How many words is Many Waters?
Roughly 85,000 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).