Book · by Yuval Noah Harari
How many pages is Sapiens?
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari has a median of 450 pages across 12 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 256 to 464 pages.
How long will Sapiens 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 12 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 86 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | HarperCollins Publishers | – | 464 | OL57564365M |
| 2025 | HarperCollins Publishers | – | 464 | OL57566394M |
| 2021 | Harper | hardcover | 256 | OL32849073M |
| 2021 | Penguin Random House | – | 256 | OL33922063M |
| 2020 | HarperCollins Publishers | – | 256 | OL29884812M |
| 2020 | HarperCollins Publishers | – | 256 | OL29906225M |
| 2019 | Penguin Random House | – | 544 | OL28645248M |
| 2018 | Harper Perennial | pbk. | 443 | OL26414386M |
| 2015 | Vintage Books | Paperback | 498 | OL26234146M |
| 2014 | RANDOM HOUSE INDIA | paperback | 443 | OL30503993M |
| 2014 | Penguin Random House | – | 456 | OL33494758M |
| 2014 | Signal | paperback | 464 | OL27700871M |
Questions
- How many pages is Sapiens?
- About 450 pages: that is the median of 12 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 256 to 544 pages.
- How long does it take to read Sapiens?
- About 8 h 39 min at 238 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 18 days.
- How many words is Sapiens?
- Roughly 124,000 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)).