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How many pages is Night Watch?

Night Watch by Terry Pratchett has a median of 400 pages across 5 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 368 to 432 pages.

Median pages
400
5 editions counted
Range
338–480
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
7.1h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
110k
at 275 words per page
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How long will Night Watch take you?

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Reading time
7 h 03 min
At 30 min a day
15 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.

350400450500200520102015202020252002: 368 pages2002: 338 pages2003: 432 pages2007: 480 pages2025: 400 pagesmedian 400
350400450500201020202002: 368 pages2002: 338 pages2003: 432 pages2007: 480 pages2025: 400 pagesmedian 400
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 5 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 3 more editions were 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 33 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2025Penguin Books, Limited–400OL57538817M
2007CorgiPaperback480OL7815570M
2003HarperTorchmass market paperback432OL28341902M
2002Doubleday–368OL27104289M
2002HarperCollins–338OL3568421M

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Questions

How many pages is Night Watch?
About 400 pages: that is the median of 5 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 338 to 480 pages.
How long does it take to read Night Watch?
About 7 h 03 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 15 days.
How many words is Night Watch?
Roughly 110,000 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).