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How many pages is Mona Lisa Overdrive?

Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson has a median of 308 pages across 7 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 260 to 318 pages.

Median pages
308
7 editions counted
Range
251–320
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
5.4h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
85k
at 275 words per page
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How long will Mona Lisa Overdrive take you?

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 26 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.

2502753003251990200020101988: 260 pages1988: 260 pages1988: 251 pages1989: 316 pages1989: 308 pages1997: 320 pages2017: 320 pagesmedian 308
2502753003251990200020101988: 260 pages1988: 260 pages1988: 251 pages1989: 316 pages1989: 308 pages1997: 320 pages2017: 320 pagesmedian 308
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 7 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 34 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2017GollanczPaperback320OL61521548M
1997SpectraMass Market Paperback320OL7824510M
1989Grafton–316OL15084516M
1989Bantam Books–308OL22739199M
1988Bantam Books–260OL2038133M
1988Bantam Books–260OL24765109M
1988Gollancz–251OL20744900M

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Questions

How many pages is Mona Lisa Overdrive?
About 308 pages: that is the median of 7 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 251 to 320 pages.
How long does it take to read Mona Lisa Overdrive?
About 5 h 26 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 11 days.
How many words is Mona Lisa Overdrive?
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).