Book · by Laurie Halse Anderson
How many pages is Speak?
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson has a median of 197 pages across 11 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 197 to 230 pages.
Median pages
197
11 editions counted
Range
197–276
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
3.5h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
54k
at 275 words per page
How long will Speak take you?
Reading time
3 h 28 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.
Editions counted
The 11 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 52 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Square Fish | – | 224 | OL26456615M |
| 2009 | Speak | – | 197 | OL23693543M |
| 2006 | Penguin Group | – | 197 | OL21631404M |
| 2003 | Scholastic Inc. | – | 198 | OL7514413M |
| 2003 | Speak | – | 197 | OL24936278M |
| 2001 | Puffin Books | – | 197 | OL6794320M |
| 2001 | Hodder Children's Books | Paperback | 240 | OL10676534M |
| 2000 | Hampton-Brown | – | 237 | OL31813919M |
| 2000 | Thorndike Press | – | 276 | OL6779584M |
| 1999 | Farrar Straus Giroux | – | 197 | OL23243938M |
| 1999 | Farrar Straus Giroux | paperback | 197 | OL371158M |
Questions
- How many pages is Speak?
- About 197 pages: that is the median of 11 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 197 to 276 pages.
- How long does it take to read Speak?
- About 3 h 28 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 7 days.
- How many words is Speak?
- 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)).