Book · by Jostein Gaarder
How many pages is Sophie's World?
Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder has a median of 442 pages across 12 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 403 to 519 pages.
Median pages
442
12 editions counted
Range
403–523
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
7.8h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
122k
at 275 words per page
How long will Sophie's World take you?
Reading time
7 h 48 min
At 30 min a day
16 days
At 1 hour a day
8 days
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. Open Library lists 50 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Orion Publishing Group, Limited | – | 464 | OL29280573M |
| 2007 | Farrar, Straus, Giroux | – | 518 | OL18290408M |
| 2002 | Berkley Books | – | 523 | OL22379155M |
| 1997 | Berkley Trade | – | 523 | OL7503939M |
| 1996 | Berkley Books | – | 523 | OL24504594M |
| 1995 | Phoenix House | – | 403 | OL21105376M |
| 1995 | Orion Children's Books (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing G | Hardcover | 448 | OL8727231M |
| 1995 | Phoenix House | Paperback | 436 | OL24607011M |
| 1995 | Phoenix/Orion Books Ltd | Paperback | 403 | OL9002880M |
| 1994 | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | – | 403 | OL1088419M |
| 1994 | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | – | 403 | OL24754577M |
| 1994 | farrar, straus and girour | – | 422 | OL59047926M |
Questions
- How many pages is Sophie's World?
- About 442 pages: that is the median of 12 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 403 to 523 pages.
- How long does it take to read Sophie's World?
- About 7 h 48 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 16 days.
- How many words is Sophie's World?
- Roughly 122,000 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)).