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How many pages is Sahara?

Sahara by Clive Cussler has a median of 568 pages across 13 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 568 to 655 pages.

Median pages
568
13 editions counted
Range
416–758
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
10h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
156k
at 275 words per page
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Reading time
10 h 01 min
At 30 min a day
21 days
At 1 hour a day
11 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

4006008001995200020051992: 541 pages1992: 568 pages1992: 576 pages1992: 541 pages1993: 568 pages1993: 758 pages1993: 758 pages1994: 758 pages1994: 655 pages1994: 416 pages2004: 576 pages2005: 568 pages2005: 568 pagesmedian 568
4006008001995200020051992: 541 pages1992: 568 pages1992: 576 pages1992: 541 pages1993: 568 pages1993: 758 pages1993: 758 pages1994: 758 pages1994: 655 pages1994: 416 pages2004: 576 pages2005: 568 pages2005: 568 pagesmedian 568
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 13 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 57 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2005PocketPaperback568OL8456846M
2005Pocket Star Books–568OL22616771M
2004Pocket StarMass Market Paperback576OL7951636M
1994Chivers–758OL22838540M
1994GraftonPaperback655OL22600408M
1994Harpercollins–416OL7256064M
1993Pocket Books–568OL22859391M
1993G K Hall & CoHardcover758OL9583421M

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Questions

How many pages is Sahara?
About 568 pages: that is the median of 13 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 416 to 758 pages.
How long does it take to read Sahara?
About 10 h 01 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 21 days.
How many words is Sahara?
Roughly 156,000 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).