Book · by Thomas Harris · first published 1981
How many pages is Red Dragon?
Red Dragon by Thomas Harris has a median of 354 pages across 17 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 343 to 400 pages.
How long will Red Dragon 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 | 360 | 4 | 6 h 21 min |
| Mass market | 404 | 2 | 7 h 07 min |
Editions counted
The 17 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 61 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Penguin Random House | – | 432 | OL28442352M |
| 2005 | Delta Trade Paperbacks | – | 343 | OL3435800M |
| 2002 | Center Point Pub. | – | 400 | OL3560973M |
| 2000 | Dutton | Hardcover | 369 | OL6778876M |
| 2000 | TBS/GBS/Transworld | – | 320 | OL28951864M |
| 1999 | Dell | Mass Market Paperback | 454 | OL24942815M |
| 1999 | Delta Trade Paperbacks | Paperback | 343 | OL20514730M |
| 1991 | Buccaneer Books | Hardcover | 352 | OL9591820M |
| 1984 | Ulverscroft Large Print | Library Binding | 496 | OL9582877M |
| 1984 | Charnwood | – | 478 | OL22641183M |
| 1983 | Corgi | – | 362 | OL18897038M |
| 1982 | Bantam Books | Mass Market Paperback | 354 | OL26343738M |
| 1982 | BCA | – | 319 | OL17869752M |
| 1982 | Bodley Head | – | 319 | OL18556206M |
| 1982 | Random House Publishing Group | – | 368 | OL29558812M |
| 1981 | Putnam | – | 339 | OL24218129M |
| 1981 | Putnam | Hardcover | 348 | OL4262888M |
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Questions
- How many pages is Red Dragon?
- About 354 pages: that is the median of 17 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 319 to 496 pages.
- How long does it take to read Red Dragon?
- About 6 h 14 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 13 days.
- How many words is Red Dragon?
- Roughly 97,000 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)).