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How many pages is Skipping Christmas?

Skipping Christmas by John Grisham has a median of 196 pages across 13 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 192 to 216 pages.

Median pages
196
13 editions counted
Range
177–304
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
3.5h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
54k
at 275 words per page

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Reading time
3 h 27 min
At 30 min a day
7 days
At 1 hour a day
4 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

200250300200220052007201020122001: 177 pages2001: 192 pages2001: 177 pages2001: 304 pages2001: 194 pages2001: 198 pages2001: 177 pages2002: 192 pages2003: 216 pages2004: 240 pages2010: 196 pages2010: 256 pages2013: 208 pagesmedian 196
200250300200520102001: 177 pages2001: 192 pages2001: 177 pages2001: 304 pages2001: 194 pages2001: 198 pages2001: 177 pages2002: 192 pages2003: 216 pages2004: 240 pages2010: 196 pages2010: 256 pages2013: 208 pagesmedian 196
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 13 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 47 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2013Penguin Random House–208OL28469820M
2010Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks–196OL26331271M
2010Random House Publishing Group–256OL28757963M
2004DellPaperback240OL7520280M
2003Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & CPaperback216OL9884509M
2002Doubledayhardcover192OL30183656M
2001Doubleday–177OL23277854M
2001Penguin Random Houserelié192OL40336248M

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Questions

How many pages is Skipping Christmas?
About 196 pages: that is the median of 13 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 177 to 304 pages.
How long does it take to read Skipping Christmas?
About 3 h 27 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 7 days.
How many words is Skipping Christmas?
Roughly 54,000 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)).