Book · by John Boyne
How many pages is The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas?
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne has a median of 216 pages across 22 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 215 to 240 pages.
How long will The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas 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 | 247 | 5 | 4 h 21 min |
| Paperback | 216 | 11 | 3 h 48 min |
Editions counted
The 22 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 1 more edition was set aside because the page count was less than half or more than 2.2 times the median, which usually means an abridged text, an omnibus, or a typing error. Open Library lists 98 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Replika | – | 200 | OL26806274M |
| 2016 | Alfred A. Knopf | hardcover | 336 | OL32448368M |
| 2016 | Doubleday | Hardcover | 335 | OL28598748M |
| 2014 | Deinitions | paperback | 257 | OL27965770M |
| 2012 | Penguin Random House | – | 256 | OL33451782M |
| 2012 | Vintage Books | paperback | 223 | OL28219608M |
| 2008 | David Fickling Books | Trade Paperback | 240 | OL25964989M |
| 2007 | Definitions | paperback | 216 | OL37811892M |
| 2007 | Black Swan | Paperback | 215 | OL37811781M |
| 2007 | Oxford University Press | Paperback | 216 | OL26971937M |
| 2007 | Doubleday | Hardcover | 215 | OL37809367M |
| 2007 | Thorndike Press | Hardcover | 247 | OL8137790M |
| 2007 | Definitions | paperback | 216 | OL28949826M |
| 2007 | David Fickling Books | Paperback | 240 | OL9435081M |
| 2007 | Definitions | paperback | 216 | OL29608949M |
| 2007 | David Fickling Books | Paperback | 216 | OL37813032M |
| 2007 | Arena | Paperback | 205 | OL36693706M |
| 2007 | Random House Children's Books | – | 240 | OL34124517M |
| 2006 | David Fickling Books | – | 215 | OL7442114M |
| 2006 | David Fickling Books | – | 215 | OL23275492M |
| 2006 | David Fickling Books | Hardcover | 216 | OL16319950M |
| 2006 | David Fickling Books | – | 224 | OL7442113M |
Questions
- How many pages is The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas?
- About 216 pages: that is the median of 22 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 200 to 336 pages.
- How long does it take to read The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas?
- About 3 h 48 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 Boy in the Striped Pyjamas?
- Roughly 59,000 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)).