Book · by Alex Haley · first published 1980
How many pages is Roots?
Roots by Alex Haley has a median of 704 pages across 13 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 688 to 899 pages.
How long will Roots take you?
Page count of every edition, by year
Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.
Editions counted
The 13 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 63 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Penguin Random House | – | 912 | OL30586738M |
| 2007 | Vanguard Press | Hardcover | 600 | OL9888566M |
| 2007 | Vanguard Press | Paperback | 899 | OL8871139M |
| 2007 | Vanguard Press | – | 903 | OL37061310M |
| 2000 | Wings | Hardcover | 704 | OL7681400M |
| 1991 | Vintage | – | 688 | OL22086209M |
| 1991 | Vintage | – | 688 | OL22042670M |
| 1980 | Zap Bavos | – | 1,006 | OL20899458M |
| 1980 | Dell | – | 736 | OL7518095M |
| 1977 | Dell | – | 729 | OL18715459M |
| 1976 | Doubleday | – | 688 | OL5296263M |
| 1976 | Doubleday | – | 587 | OL23375046M |
| 1976 | Doubleday | – | 587 | OL21224452M |
Questions
- How many pages is Roots?
- About 704 pages: that is the median of 13 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 587 to 1,006 pages.
- How long does it take to read Roots?
- About 12 h 25 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 25 days.
- How many words is Roots?
- Roughly 194,000 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)).