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Book · by Derek Landy · first published 2006

How many pages is Skulduggery Pleasant?

Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy has a median of 392 pages across 9 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 368 to 400 pages.

Median pages
392
9 editions counted
Range
298–576
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
6.9h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
108k
at 275 words per page
Book 1 of Skulduggery Pleasant
Series in order

How long will Skulduggery Pleasant take you?

Starts at the fiction average of 260 words per minute and 275 words per page. Move the slider to your own speed.

Reading time
6 h 55 min
At 30 min a day
14 days
At 1 hour a day
7 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

30040050060020062008201020122006: 384 pages2007: 400 pages2007: 400 pages2007: 368 pages2008: 416 pages2008: 392 pages2011: 298 pages2012: 367 pages2013: 576 pagesmedian 392
3004005006002007201020122006: 384 pages2007: 400 pages2007: 400 pages2007: 368 pages2008: 416 pages2008: 392 pages2011: 298 pages2012: 367 pages2013: 576 pagesmedian 392
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 9 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 26 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2013HarperCollins Canada, Limited–576OL28770977M
2012HarperCollins Publishers Limited–367OL28485479M
2011Galaxy Plus–298OL33031033M
2008HarperTrophyPaperback416OL9349491M
2008Harper–392OL32142348M
2007HarperCollins–400OL7289227M
2007HarperCollinsLibrary Binding400OL9243933M
2007HarperCollins Publishers New Zealand–368OL29553173M

Questions

How many pages is Skulduggery Pleasant?
About 392 pages: that is the median of 9 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 298 to 576 pages.
How long does it take to read Skulduggery Pleasant?
About 6 h 55 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 14 days.
How many words is Skulduggery Pleasant?
Roughly 108,000 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).