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How many pages is Soul of the Fire?

Soul of the Fire by Terry Goodkind has a median of 643 pages across 7 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 518 to 768 pages.

Median pages
643
7 editions counted
Range
508–800
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
11h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
177k
at 275 words per page
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How long will Soul of the Fire 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
11 h 20 min
At 30 min a day
23 days
At 1 hour a day
12 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

500600700800200020022004200620081999: 508 pages1999: 508 pages2000: 800 pages2000: 800 pages2000: 643 pages2000: 528 pages2008: 736 pagesmedian 643
500600700800200020051999: 508 pages1999: 508 pages2000: 800 pages2000: 800 pages2000: 643 pages2000: 528 pages2008: 736 pagesmedian 643
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 7 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 29 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2008Orion Publishing Group, Limited–736OL28990965M
2000Tor FantasyPaperback800OL9323962M
2000Tandem Library–800OL7589080M
2000Millennium–643OL24962139M
2000Tor BooksLeather-bound528OL9851069M
1999Millennium–508OL32143297M
1999Tor–508OL390149M

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Questions

How many pages is Soul of the Fire?
About 643 pages: that is the median of 7 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 508 to 800 pages.
How long does it take to read Soul of the Fire?
About 11 h 20 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 23 days.
How many words is Soul of the Fire?
Roughly 177,000 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).