Book · by Salman Rushdie
How many pages is Midnight's Children?
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie has a median of 533 pages across 15 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 455 to 574 pages.
How long will Midnight's Children 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 | 518 | 2 | 9 h 07 min |
| Paperback | 533 | 6 | 9 h 24 min |
Editions counted
The 15 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 86 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Vintage Canada | Paperback | 533 | OL35349912M |
| 2011 | Penguin Random House | – | 672 | OL28466424M |
| 2010 | Penguin Random House | – | 672 | OL34451440M |
| 2008 | Vintage Books | Paperback | 647 | OL26461995M |
| 2006 | Random House Trade Paperbacks | Paperback | 560 | OL8021188M |
| 2000 | Penguin (Non-Classics) | – | 544 | OL7352240M |
| 1997 | Vintage Canada | – | 462 | OL20351955M |
| 1995 | Vintage | Paperback | 463 | OL22109467M |
| 1995 | Alfred A. Knopf | Hardcover | 589 | OL933831M |
| 1991 | Penguin Books | Paperback | 533 | OL24748221M |
| 1984 | Knopf | – | 446 | OL20949174M |
| 1982 | Avon | – | 552 | OL17613188M |
| 1981 | Alfred A. Knopf | Hardcover | 446 | OL4093672M |
| 1981 | Random House | – | 446 | OL7414015M |
| 1981 | Cape | paperback | 448 | OL39218068M |
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Questions
- How many pages is Midnight's Children?
- About 533 pages: that is the median of 15 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 446 to 672 pages.
- How long does it take to read Midnight's Children?
- About 9 h 24 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 19 days.
- How many words is Midnight's Children?
- Roughly 147,000 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)).