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How many pages is The Best Friend?

The Best Friend by Robert Lawrence Stine has a median of 147 pages across 5 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 147 to 160 pages.

Median pages
147
5 editions counted
Range
147–160
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
2.6h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
40k
at 275 words per page

How long will The Best Friend take you?

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Reading time
2 h 35 min
At 30 min a day
6 days
At 1 hour a day
3 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

15016019952000200520101992: 147 pages1992: 147 pages1995: 147 pages2006: 160 pages2011: 160 pagesmedian 147
150160200020101992: 147 pages1992: 147 pages1995: 147 pages2006: 160 pages2011: 160 pagesmedian 147
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 5 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 11 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2011Simon & Schuster, Limited–160OL33424648M
2006Simon PulseMass Market Paperback160OL8458169M
1995Pocket BooksPaperback147OL11077139M
1992Pocket Bookspaperback147OL24388842M
1992Pocket Books–147OL1151858M

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Questions

How many pages is The Best Friend?
About 147 pages: that is the median of 5 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 147 to 160 pages.
How long does it take to read The Best Friend?
About 2 h 35 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 6 days.
How many words is The Best Friend?
Roughly 40,000 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)).