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How many pages is Speaker for the Dead?

Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card has a median of 415 pages across 12 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 362 to 416 pages.

Median pages
415
12 editions counted
Range
280–432
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
7.3h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
114k
at 275 words per page
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Reading time
7 h 19 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.

300350400450199019952000200520101987: 432 pages1987: 415 pages1987: 415 pages1988: 416 pages1991: 280 pages1991: 304 pages1992: 415 pages1994: 382 pages1994: 382 pages1999: 416 pages2009: 304 pages2011: 416 pagesmedian 415
3003504004501990200020101987: 432 pages1987: 415 pages1987: 415 pages1988: 416 pages1991: 280 pages1991: 304 pages1992: 415 pages1994: 382 pages1994: 382 pages1999: 416 pages2009: 304 pages2011: 416 pagesmedian 415
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 12 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 39 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2011Little, Brown Book Group Limited–416OL33413363M
2009Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom–304OL33973325M
1999Tandem LibrarySchool & Library Binding416OL7973919M
1994Tor–382OL28230793M
1994Tom Doherty Associates, Inc.–382OL22597263M
1992Legend–415OL17376769M
1991T. Doherty Associates–280OL1534482M
1991TorPaperback304OL9369820M

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Questions

How many pages is Speaker for the Dead?
About 415 pages: that is the median of 12 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 280 to 432 pages.
How long does it take to read Speaker for the Dead?
About 7 h 19 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 15 days.
How many words is Speaker for the Dead?
Roughly 114,000 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).