Book · by Michael Lewis
How many pages is The Big Short?
The Big Short by Michael Lewis has a median of 291 pages across 9 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 290 to 320 pages.
How long will The Big Short take you?
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 9 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 30 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Penguin Books | – | 270 | OL28413150M |
| 2015 | – | – | 291 | OL27197171M |
| 2015 | Penguin Books, Limited | – | 290 | OL40439915M |
| 2015 | Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. | – | 320 | OL29729342M |
| 2011 | W.W. Norton | – | 291 | OL24848838M |
| 2011 | Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. | – | 320 | OL29594733M |
| 2010 | Gale Cengage Learning | – | 459 | OL24809816M |
| 2010 | W.W. Norton & Co. | – | 266 | OL24403141M |
| 2010 | Thorndike Press | – | 461 | OL24478793M |
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Questions
- How many pages is The Big Short?
- About 291 pages: that is the median of 9 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 266 to 461 pages.
- How long does it take to read The Big Short?
- About 5 h 36 min at 238 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 12 days.
- How many words is The Big Short?
- Roughly 80,000 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)).