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How many pages is My Brilliant Friend?

My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante has a median of 336 pages across 9 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 331 to 336 pages.

Median pages
336
9 editions counted
Range
311–505
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
5.9h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
92k
at 275 words per page
Book 1 of Neapolitan Novels
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Reading time
5 h 55 min
At 30 min a day
12 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.

300400500201220142016201820202012: 331 pages2015: 336 pages2016: 505 pages2016: 336 pages2018: 336 pages2018: 336 pages2018: 311 pages2020: 331 pages2020: 331 pagesmedian 336
300400500201520202012: 331 pages2015: 336 pages2016: 505 pages2016: 336 pages2018: 336 pages2018: 336 pages2018: 311 pages2020: 331 pages2020: 331 pagesmedian 336
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 9 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 40 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2020Europa Editions, Incorporated–331OL33791099M
2020Taylor & Francis Group–331OL28071226M
2018Text Publishing Company–336OL28712161M
2018Europa Editions, Incorporated–336OL29419408M
2018Europa Editions, Incorporated–311OL28899247M
2016––505OL27213437M
2016Text Publishing Company–336OL28629651M
2015Text Publishing CompanyPaperback336OL28564542M

Questions

How many pages is My Brilliant Friend?
About 336 pages: that is the median of 9 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 311 to 505 pages.
How long does it take to read My Brilliant Friend?
About 5 h 55 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 12 days.
How many words is My Brilliant Friend?
Roughly 92,000 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).