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How many pages is Mother Night?

Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut has a median of 202 pages across 20 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 192 to 208 pages.

Median pages
202
20 editions counted
Range
174–296
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
3.6h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
56k
at 275 words per page

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Reading time
3 h 34 min
At 30 min a day
8 days
At 1 hour a day
4 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

2002503001970198019901961: 174 pages1966: 296 pages1966: 202 pages1966: 202 pages1966: 226 pages1967: 226 pages1967: 192 pages1968: 202 pages1968: 202 pages1968: 175 pages1968: 202 pages1973: 194 pages1973: 176 pages1974: 192 pages1975: 194 pages1981: 202 pages1991: 192 pages1997: 176 pages1999: 288 pages1999: 268 pagesmedian 202
20025030019801961: 174 pages1966: 296 pages1966: 202 pages1966: 202 pages1966: 226 pages1967: 226 pages1967: 192 pages1968: 202 pages1968: 202 pages1968: 175 pages1968: 202 pages1973: 194 pages1973: 176 pages1974: 192 pages1975: 194 pages1981: 202 pages1991: 192 pages1997: 176 pages1999: 288 pages1999: 268 pagesmedian 202
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 20 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 60 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
1999Dial Press Trade Paperback–288OL7439303M
1999Delta Trade Paperbacks–268OL22376459M
1997Vintage–176OL17416589M
1991Dell–192OL7517879M
1981Dell–202OL20031982M
1975dell publishing co., inc.–194OL58952744M
1974Dell Pub. Co.–192OL18708090M
1973Granada Publishing Limited–194OL48601858M

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Questions

How many pages is Mother Night?
About 202 pages: that is the median of 20 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 174 to 296 pages.
How long does it take to read Mother Night?
About 3 h 34 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 8 days.
How many words is Mother Night?
Roughly 56,000 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)).