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How many pages is The Austere Academy?

The Austere Academy by Lemony Snicket has a median of 221 pages across 9 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 221 to 240 pages.

Median pages
221
9 editions counted
Range
216–240
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
3.9h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
61k
at 275 words per page
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How long will The Austere Academy 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
3 h 54 min
At 30 min a day
8 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.

21022023024020002005201020152000: 221 pages2000: 221 pages2000: 221 pages2000: 240 pages2000: 221 pages2002: 221 pages2004: 216 pages2008: 240 pages2018: 240 pagesmedian 221
210220230240200020102000: 221 pages2000: 221 pages2000: 221 pages2000: 240 pages2000: 221 pages2002: 221 pages2004: 216 pages2008: 240 pages2018: 240 pagesmedian 221
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
2018HarperCollins Publishers–240OL30595967M
2008HarperTrophyPaperback240OL9952009M
2004BBC Audiobooks/GalaxyPaperback216OL35341236M
2002Egmont–221OL22147498M
2000Scholastic Inc.Paperback221OL7512606M
2000HarperCollins Publishers New Zealand–221OL29555769M
2000HarperCollins–221OL23245047M
2000HarperCollins Publishers New Zealand–240OL29546754M

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Questions

How many pages is The Austere Academy?
About 221 pages: that is the median of 9 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 216 to 240 pages.
How long does it take to read The Austere Academy?
About 3 h 54 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 8 days.
How many words is The Austere Academy?
Roughly 61,000 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).