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How many pages is Mr. Mercedes?

Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King has a median of 448 pages across 11 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 433 to 560 pages.

Median pages
448
11 editions counted
Range
280–662
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
7.9h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
123k
at 275 words per page

How long will Mr. Mercedes take you?

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Reading time
7 h 54 min
At 30 min a day
16 days
At 1 hour a day
8 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

40060020122014201620182014: 405 pages2014: 496 pages2014: 437 pages2014: 662 pages2014: 280 pages2014: 434 pages2015: 432 pages2015: 448 pages2016: 659 pages2016: 560 pages2017: 560 pagesmedian 448
4006002012201520172014: 405 pages2014: 496 pages2014: 437 pages2014: 662 pages2014: 280 pages2014: 434 pages2015: 432 pages2015: 448 pages2016: 659 pages2016: 560 pages2017: 560 pagesmedian 448
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 11 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 47 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2017Pocket Books–560OL28887894M
2016––659OL27205131M
2016Pocket Books–560OL26775635M
2015Hodder & Stoughton–432OL29262705M
2015Gallery Books–448OL26805725M
2014Hodder & Stoughton–405OL28294245M
2014Hodder & Stoughton–496OL53244687M
2014Scribnerhardcover437OL25446889M

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Questions

How many pages is Mr. Mercedes?
About 448 pages: that is the median of 11 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 280 to 662 pages.
How long does it take to read Mr. Mercedes?
About 7 h 54 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 16 days.
How many words is Mr. Mercedes?
Roughly 123,000 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)).