Book · by Sally Rooney
How many pages is Normal People?
Normal People by Sally Rooney has a median of 273 pages across 7 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 269 to 283 pages.
How long will Normal People 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 | 273 | 3 | 4 h 49 min |
| Paperback | 278 | 3 | 4 h 54 min |
Editions counted
The 7 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 27 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Hogarth | paperback | 272 | OL28119565M |
| 2019 | Faber | – | 266 | OL38566709M |
| 2019 | Knopf Canada | hardcover | 273 | OL27735765M |
| 2019 | Hogarth | hardcover | 288 | OL27330017M |
| 2019 | ISIS | Paperback | 278 | OL43133062M |
| 2019 | Random House Large Print | paperback | 400 | OL27735762M |
| 2018 | Faber & Faber | Hardcover | 266 | OL27735763M |
Questions
- How many pages is Normal People?
- About 273 pages: that is the median of 7 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 266 to 400 pages.
- How long does it take to read Normal People?
- About 4 h 49 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 10 days.
- How many words is Normal People?
- Roughly 75,000 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)).