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How many pages is Soul Music?

Soul Music by Terry Pratchett has a median of 400 pages across 9 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 384 to 432 pages.

Median pages
400
9 editions counted
Range
368–478
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
7.1h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
110k
at 275 words per page
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How long will Soul Music 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
7 h 03 min
At 30 min a day
15 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.

4004502000201020201995: 378 pages1995: 384 pages1995: 368 pages1995: 389 pages1998: 423 pages2005: 478 pages2009: 432 pages2013: 432 pages2025: 400 pagesmedian 400
4004502000201020201995: 378 pages1995: 384 pages1995: 368 pages1995: 389 pages1998: 423 pages2005: 478 pages2009: 432 pages2013: 432 pages2025: 400 pagesmedian 400
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 9 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 38 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2025HarperCollins Publishers–400OL57566962M
2013Penguin Random House–432OL28487277M
2009Transworld Publishers Limited–432OL33397732M
2005ĖKSMO–478OL23092581M
1998ISISHardcover423OL7986200M
1995Corgi BooksPaperback378OL7815037M
1995HarperPrism–384OL7287068M
1995Corgi BooksPaperback368OL7815527M

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Questions

How many pages is Soul Music?
About 400 pages: that is the median of 9 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 368 to 478 pages.
How long does it take to read Soul Music?
About 7 h 03 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 15 days.
How many words is Soul Music?
Roughly 110,000 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).