Book · by Stephen King · first published 1991
How many pages is Needful Things?
Needful Things by Stephen King has a median of 736 pages across 15 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 698 to 771 pages.
How long will Needful Things 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 | 867 | 2 | 15 h 17 min |
| Paperback | 784 | 2 | 13 h 49 min |
| Mass market | 790 | 3 | 13 h 56 min |
Editions counted
The 15 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 1 more edition was set aside because the page count was less than half or more than 2.2 times the median, which usually means an abridged text, an omnibus, or a typing error. Open Library lists 67 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Gallery Books | Paperback | 816 | OL28805279M |
| 2016 | Pocket Books | Mass Market Paperback | 943 | OL31445084M |
| 2016 | Scribner | – | 752 | OL34011548M |
| 1993 | Signet | paperback | 752 | OL7573443M |
| 1992 | BCA | – | 698 | OL46866638M |
| 1992 | BCA | – | 698 | OL53223047M |
| 1992 | BCA | – | 698 | OL53196080M |
| 1992 | BCA | – | 698 | OL53223035M |
| 1992 | MacMillan Publishing Company. | Library Binding | 1,044 | OL9613504M |
| 1992 | BCA | – | 698 | OL46925766M |
| 1992 | Signet | mass market paperback | 736 | OL22634767M |
| 1992 | New English Library / Hodder and Stoughton | Mass Market Paperback | 790 | OL29110113M |
| 1992 | Signet | – | 752 | OL7573241M |
| 1991 | Signet | – | 736 | OL24767122M |
| 1991 | Viking | hardcover | 690 | OL1566227M |
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Questions
- How many pages is Needful Things?
- About 736 pages: that is the median of 15 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 690 to 1,044 pages.
- How long does it take to read Needful Things?
- About 12 h 58 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 26 days.
- How many words is Needful Things?
- Roughly 202,000 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)).