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How many pages is Oryx and Crake?

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood has a median of 386 pages across 14 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 378 to 441 pages.

Median pages
386
14 editions counted
Range
376–571
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
6.8h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
106k
at 275 words per page
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Reading time
6 h 49 min
At 30 min a day
14 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.

400500600200220052007201020122002: 571 pages2003: 376 pages2003: 376 pages2003: 378 pages2003: 378 pages2004: 443 pages2004: 436 pages2004: 376 pages2005: 384 pages2005: 383 pages2009: 448 pages2009: 389 pages2009: 416 pages2013: 448 pagesmedian 386
400500600200520102002: 571 pages2003: 376 pages2003: 376 pages2003: 378 pages2003: 378 pages2004: 443 pages2004: 436 pages2004: 376 pages2005: 384 pages2005: 383 pages2009: 448 pages2009: 389 pages2009: 416 pages2013: 448 pagesmedian 386
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 14 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 49 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2013Little, Brown Book Group Limited–448OL33856204M
2009Little, Brown Book Group Limited–448OL33409621M
2009Anchor BooksPaperback389OL39470791M
2009Vintage Canadapaperback416OL28346266M
2005McClelland & Stewart–384OL20239155M
2005Nan A. Talese–383OL43088221M
2004Seal Books–443OL19903018M
2004ViragoPaperback436OL19351930M

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Questions

How many pages is Oryx and Crake?
About 386 pages: that is the median of 14 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 376 to 571 pages.
How long does it take to read Oryx and Crake?
About 6 h 49 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 14 days.
How many words is Oryx and Crake?
Roughly 106,000 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).