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How many pages is Personal?

Personal by Lee Child has a median of 456 pages across 9 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 400 to 480 pages.

Median pages
456
9 editions counted
Range
353–544
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
8.0h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
125k
at 275 words per page
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How long will Personal 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
8 h 02 min
At 30 min a day
17 days
At 1 hour a day
9 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

400500201520172020202220252014: 400 pages2014: 353 pages2014: 464 pages2014: 400 pages2015: 544 pages2015: 480 pages2016: 456 pages2017: 544 pages2025: 384 pagesmedian 456
4005002015202020252014: 400 pages2014: 353 pages2014: 464 pages2014: 400 pages2015: 544 pages2015: 480 pages2016: 456 pages2017: 544 pages2025: 384 pagesmedian 456
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 9 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 27 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2025Random House Publishing Group–384OL60888263M
2017DellPaperback544OL27265507M
2016Charnwood–456OL29313139M
2015Dellpaperback544OL31869784M
2015Transworld Publishers Limited–480OL29248851M
2014Transworld Publishers Limited–400OL29188093M
2014Delacorte Press–353OL26257967M
2014Bantam Books–464OL29238714M

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Questions

How many pages is Personal?
About 456 pages: that is the median of 9 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 353 to 544 pages.
How long does it take to read Personal?
About 8 h 02 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 17 days.
How many words is Personal?
Roughly 125,000 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).