Book · by Michael Crichton
How many pages is Sphere?
Sphere by Michael Crichton has a median of 385 pages across 15 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 370 to 511 pages.
How long will Sphere take you?
Page count of every edition, by year
Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.
Pages by format
Hardcover, paperback and mass-market editions are typeset differently, so the same text can run to more or fewer pages.
| Format | Median pages | Editions | Reading time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 385 | 4 | 6 h 47 min |
| Paperback | 442 | 4 | 7 h 48 min |
Editions counted
The 15 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 70 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Harper | Paperback | 522 | OL26312599M |
| 2011 | HarperCollins Canada, Limited | – | 544 | OL28752654M |
| 1999 | Tandem Library | School & Library Binding | 370 | OL8102185M |
| 1998 | Ballantine Books | paperback | 384 | OL27278194M |
| 1998 | Pan Books | Paperback | 500 | OL31911585M |
| 1994 | Ballantine Books | Mass Market Paperback | 371 | OL39480261M |
| 1990 | Pan Books | Paperback | 385 | OL24633692M |
| 1989 | Ulverscroft | – | 692 | OL22902269M |
| 1989 | Ulverscroft Large Print | Hardcover | 638 | OL9872519M |
| 1987 | – | – | 358 | OL58692534M |
| 1987 | Alfred A. Knopf | Hardcover | 385 | OL23771904M |
| 1987 | Alfred A. Knopf | – | 368 | OL46927437M |
| 1987 | Alfred A. Knopf | Hardcover | 385 | OL2741255M |
| 1987 | Macmillan | – | 385 | OL22328347M |
| 1987 | A.A. Knopf | – | 335 | OL15317356M |
More by Michael Crichton
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All 12 books by Michael Crichton with page counts
Questions
- How many pages is Sphere?
- About 385 pages: that is the median of 15 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 335 to 692 pages.
- How long does it take to read Sphere?
- About 6 h 47 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 14 days.
- How many words is Sphere?
- Roughly 106,000 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)).