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Book · by J. D. Salinger · first published 1953

How many pages is Nine Stories?

Nine Stories by J. D. Salinger has a median of 198 pages across 29 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 188 to 215 pages.

Median pages
198
29 editions counted
Range
144–320
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
3.5h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
54k
at 275 words per page

How long will Nine Stories take you?

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Reading time
3 h 29 min
At 30 min a day
7 days
At 1 hour a day
4 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

2003001960198020001948: 146 pages1953: 208 pages1953: 215 pages1953: 302 pages1953: 146 pages1953: 302 pages1953: 302 pages1955: 302 pages1959: 302 pages1963: 144 pages1964: 210 pages1964: 198 pages1964: 198 pages1966: 198 pages1968: 188 pages1968: 188 pages1972: 194 pages1976: 188 pages1978: 188 pages1983: 198 pages1986: 215 pages1988: 215 pages1989: 198 pages1991: 198 pages1991: 208 pages1994: 144 pages2001: 320 pages2010: 150 pages2018: 192 pagesmedian 198
2003001950197520001948: 146 pages1953: 208 pages1953: 215 pages1953: 302 pages1953: 146 pages1953: 302 pages1953: 302 pages1955: 302 pages1959: 302 pages1963: 144 pages1964: 210 pages1964: 198 pages1964: 198 pages1966: 198 pages1968: 188 pages1968: 188 pages1972: 194 pages1976: 188 pages1978: 188 pages1983: 198 pages1986: 215 pages1988: 215 pages1989: 198 pages1991: 198 pages1991: 208 pages1994: 144 pages2001: 320 pages2010: 150 pages2018: 192 pagesmedian 198
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 29 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 82 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2018Penguin Books, Limited–192OL28704284M
2010Penguin Books, Limited–150OL33240256M
2001Back Bay BooksPaperback320OL9539890M
1994Penguin–144OL22334928M
1991Tandem Library–198OL7601398M
1991Little, Brown and CompanyMass Market Paperback208OL9513091M
1989Bantam Books–198OL16166519M
1988H. Hamilton–215OL52859135M

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Questions

How many pages is Nine Stories?
About 198 pages: that is the median of 29 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 144 to 320 pages.
How long does it take to read Nine Stories?
About 3 h 29 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 7 days.
How many words is Nine Stories?
Roughly 54,000 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)).