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How many pages is Night Shift?

Night Shift by Stephen King has a median of 344 pages across 17 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 326 to 409 pages.

Median pages
344
17 editions counted
Range
300–544
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
6.1h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
95k
at 275 words per page

How long will Night Shift 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
6 h 04 min
At 30 min a day
13 days
At 1 hour a day
7 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

30040050019801990200020101978: 336 pages1978: 336 pages1978: 336 pages1979: 409 pages1979: 326 pages1979: 326 pages1979: 326 pages1979: 352 pages1982: 316 pages1990: 352 pages1994: 541 pages1994: 541 pages1995: 384 pages2008: 300 pages2011: 505 pages2011: 544 pages2012: 344 pagesmedian 344
300400500198020001978: 336 pages1978: 336 pages1978: 336 pages1979: 409 pages1979: 326 pages1979: 326 pages1979: 326 pages1979: 352 pages1982: 316 pages1990: 352 pages1994: 541 pages1994: 541 pages1995: 384 pages2008: 300 pages2011: 505 pages2011: 544 pages2012: 344 pagesmedian 344
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Pages by format

Hardcover, paperback and mass-market editions are typeset differently, so the same text can run to more or fewer pages.

FormatMedian pagesEditionsReading time
Hardcover33635 h 55 min
Mass market33945 h 59 min

Editions counted

The 17 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 65 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2012Anchor Books–344OL30612273M
2011Anchor BooksMass Market Paperback505OL26339292M
2011Turtleback Bookslibrary binding544OL27314577M
2008Hodder & Stoughton–300OL53245293M
1995Chivers North America–384OL7417643M
1994G.K. Hall–541OL1427477M
1994ISIS Large Print–541OL22299818M
1990New American Librarymass market paperback352OL7573126M

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Questions

How many pages is Night Shift?
About 344 pages: that is the median of 17 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 300 to 544 pages.
How long does it take to read Night Shift?
About 6 h 04 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 13 days.
How many words is Night Shift?
Roughly 95,000 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)).