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How many pages is Outlander?

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon has a median of 850 pages across 15 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 656 to 864 pages.

Median pages
850
15 editions counted
Range
627–896
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
15h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
234k
at 275 words per page
Book 1 of Outlander series
Series in order

How long will Outlander take you?

Starts at the fiction average of 260 words per minute and 275 words per page. Move the slider to your own speed.

Reading time
14 h 59 min
At 30 min a day
30 days
At 1 hour a day
15 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

6007008009002000201020201991: 656 pages1991: 627 pages1991: 627 pages1992: 851 pages1992: 850 pages1994: 864 pages1994: 864 pages1996: 850 pages1998: 640 pages1999: 656 pages2005: 896 pages2005: 896 pages2011: 662 pages2011: 864 pages2020: 880 pagesmedian 850
6007008009002000201020201991: 656 pages1991: 627 pages1991: 627 pages1992: 851 pages1992: 850 pages1994: 864 pages1994: 864 pages1996: 850 pages1998: 640 pages1999: 656 pages2005: 896 pages2005: 896 pages2011: 662 pages2011: 864 pages2020: 880 pagesmedian 850
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 15 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 1 more edition was 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 50 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2020Arrow Books–880OL52256437M
2011Delacorte Press–662OL25050704M
2011Penguin Random House–864OL33418704M
2005Dell–896OL7520304M
2005Seal BooksMass Market Paperback896OL8075147M
1999Penguin Random House–656OL34408678M
1998Delta–640OL7439174M
1996Dell Publishing CompanyPaperback850OL25874418M

More by Diana Gabaldon

All 6 books by Diana Gabaldon with page counts

Questions

How many pages is Outlander?
About 850 pages: that is the median of 15 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 627 to 896 pages.
How long does it take to read Outlander?
About 14 h 59 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 30 days.
How many words is Outlander?
Roughly 234,000 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).