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Book · by Ken Follett · first published 1991

How many pages is Night Over Water?

Night Over Water by Ken Follett has a median of 480 pages across 9 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 406 to 526 pages.

Median pages
480
9 editions counted
Range
400–688
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
8.5h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
132k
at 275 words per page

How long will Night Over Water 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
8 h 28 min
At 30 min a day
17 days
At 1 hour a day
9 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

400500600700200020101991: 400 pages1991: 406 pages1992: 480 pages1992: 526 pages1992: 526 pages2004: 448 pages2012: 688 pages2019: 688 pagesmedian 480
400500600700200020101991: 400 pages1991: 406 pages1992: 480 pages1992: 526 pages1992: 526 pages2004: 448 pages2012: 688 pages2019: 688 pagesmedian 480
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump). 1 edition without a publication year not plotted.

Editions counted

The 9 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 56 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2019Pan Macmillan–688OL28701237M
2012Pan Macmillan–688OL28484395M
2004NAL Trade–448OL7574534M
1992Pan Books in association with Macmillan London–480OL22499734M
1992Penguin Books–526OL24950628M
1992Signet–526OL17434502M
1991Morrow–400OL1539203M
1991MacmillanLondon–406OL18394634M

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Questions

How many pages is Night Over Water?
About 480 pages: that is the median of 9 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 400 to 688 pages.
How long does it take to read Night Over Water?
About 8 h 28 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 17 days.
How many words is Night Over Water?
Roughly 132,000 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)).