Book · by Philip Pullman · first published 1999
How many pages is Northern Lights?
Northern Lights by Philip Pullman has a median of 399 pages across 26 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 399 to 448 pages.
How long will Northern Lights 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 | 399 | 2 | 7 h 02 min |
| Paperback | 448 | 9 | 7 h 54 min |
Editions counted
The 26 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 148 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Scholastic | paperback | 448 | OL40209362M |
| 2020 | Scholastic | – | 400 | OL29508188M |
| 2019 | Scholastic | paperback | 448 | OL28255567M |
| 2019 | Scholastic | – | 448 | OL29452103M |
| 2017 | Scholastic | paperback | 448 | OL29193614M |
| 2015 | Knopf Incorporated, Alfred A. | – | 399 | OL53302212M |
| 2015 | Scholastic | paperback | 448 | OL33870692M |
| 2015 | Random House Children's Books | – | 448 | OL33534234M |
| 2011 | Scholastic | – | 448 | OL27038768M |
| 2010 | Scholastic Press | paperback | 420 | OL40557997M |
| 2007 | Scholastic | – | 397 | OL33020846M |
| 2004 | Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media | Turtleback | 351 | OL10943605M |
| 2003 | Laurel-Leaf Books | Paperback | 368 | OL7520212M |
| 2003 | Galaxy Plus | paperback | 460 | OL33871019M |
| 2002 | Tandem Library | School & Library Binding | 399 | OL10953444M |
| 2002 | Thorndike Press | – | 574 | OL3558610M |
| 2002 | Alfred A. Knopf | Paperback | 399 | OL26910890M |
| 2001 | Yearling | Paperback | 399 | OL7521608M |
| 1999 | Sagebrush Education Resources | – | 351 | OL7586944M |
| 1999 | Scholastic | – | 399 | OL32129541M |
| 1998 | Alfred A. Knopf | – | 399 | OL24956902M |
| 1998 | Alfred A. Knopf | – | 399 | OL37033215M |
| 1998 | Scholastic | – | 416 | OL7542727M |
| 1997 | Del Rey | Mass Market Paperback | 351 | OL9731031M |
| 1996 | Alfred A. Knopf | Hardcover | 399 | OL797429M |
| 1995 | Scholastic Children's Books | – | 399 | OL779154M |
More by Philip Pullman
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All 6 books by Philip Pullman with page counts
Questions
- How many pages is Northern Lights?
- About 399 pages: that is the median of 26 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 351 to 574 pages.
- How long does it take to read Northern Lights?
- About 7 h 02 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 15 days.
- How many words is Northern Lights?
- 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).