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How many pages is Sharp Objects?

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn has a median of 321 pages across 12 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 272 to 362 pages.

Median pages
321
12 editions counted
Range
254–418
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
5.7h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
88k
at 275 words per page

How long will Sharp Objects take you?

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Reading time
5 h 40 min
At 30 min a day
12 days
At 1 hour a day
6 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

300400200720102012201520172006: 254 pages2007: 272 pages2007: 272 pages2007: 272 pages2007: 417 pages2007: 336 pages2008: 306 pages2015: 336 pages2018: 393 pages2018: 288 pages2018: 352 pages2018: 418 pagesmedian 321
300400201020152006: 254 pages2007: 272 pages2007: 272 pages2007: 272 pages2007: 417 pages2007: 336 pages2008: 306 pages2015: 336 pages2018: 393 pages2018: 288 pages2018: 352 pages2018: 418 pagesmedian 321
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 12 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 31 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2018Crownmass market paperback393OL32937550M
2018Broadway Bookspaperback288OL28742977M
2018Orion Publishing Group, Limited–352OL29273970M
2018Cengage Gale–418OL28912494M
2015Orion Publishing Group, Limited–336OL29275802M
2008Windsor–306OL32791618M
2007Three Rivers PressPaperback272OL9828303M
2007Weidenfeld & NicolsonPaperback272OL9644182M

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Questions

How many pages is Sharp Objects?
About 321 pages: that is the median of 12 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 254 to 418 pages.
How long does it take to read Sharp Objects?
About 5 h 40 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 12 days.
How many words is Sharp Objects?
Roughly 88,000 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)).