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How many pages is The Clan of the Cave Bear?

The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel has a median of 497 pages across 25 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 494 to 587 pages.

Median pages
497
25 editions counted
Range
468–946
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
8.8h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
137k
at 275 words per page
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Reading time
8 h 46 min
At 30 min a day
18 days
At 1 hour a day
9 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

4006008001,00019801990200020101980: 497 pages1980: 491 pages1980: 497 pages1980: 497 pages1980: 497 pages1980: 497 pages1980: 497 pages1980: 468 pages1981: 495 pages1981: 587 pages1983: 946 pages1985: 491 pages1990: 587 pages1990: 495 pages1991: 946 pages1992: 946 pages1993: 946 pages1998: 468 pages2002: 495 pages2002: 587 pages2002: 784 pages2002: 468 pages2006: 592 pages2011: 494 pagesmedian 497
4006008001,000198020001980: 497 pages1980: 491 pages1980: 497 pages1980: 497 pages1980: 497 pages1980: 497 pages1980: 497 pages1980: 468 pages1981: 495 pages1981: 587 pages1983: 946 pages1985: 491 pages1990: 587 pages1990: 495 pages1991: 946 pages1992: 946 pages1993: 946 pages1998: 468 pages2002: 495 pages2002: 587 pages2002: 784 pages2002: 468 pages2006: 592 pages2011: 494 pagesmedian 497
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump). 1 edition without a publication year not plotted.

Pages by format

Hardcover, paperback and mass-market editions are typeset differently, so the same text can run to more or fewer pages.

FormatMedian pagesEditionsReading time
Hardcover497128 h 46 min
Paperback587310 h 21 min
Mass market49528 h 44 min

Editions counted

The 25 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 89 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2011Bantam BooksPaperback494OL25050700M
2006Hodder & Stoughton–592OL34414684M
2002Bantam BooksMass Market Paperback495OL15063711M
2002Coronetpaperback587OL30181471M
2002Random House Large PrintHardcover784OL3568992M
2002Crown PublishersHardcover468OL25985600M
1998Wings BookHardcover468OL700137M
1993Chivers Press–946OL18773054M

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Questions

How many pages is The Clan of the Cave Bear?
About 497 pages: that is the median of 25 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 468 to 946 pages.
How long does it take to read The Clan of the Cave Bear?
About 8 h 46 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 18 days.
How many words is The Clan of the Cave Bear?
Roughly 137,000 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).