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How many pages is The Fiery Cross?

The Fiery Cross by Diana Gabaldon has a median of 992 pages across 11 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 979 to 1,424 pages.

Median pages
992
11 editions counted
Range
979–1,456
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
17h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
273k
at 275 words per page
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Reading time
17 h 29 min
At 30 min a day
35 days
At 1 hour a day
18 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

1,0001,2001,40019952000200520101994: 1,424 pages2001: 979 pages2001: 979 pages2001: 979 pages2001: 992 pages2001: 992 pages2002: 979 pages2002: 979 pages2004: 1,456 pages2005: 1,456 pages2011: 1,424 pagesmedian 992
1,0001,2001,400200020101994: 1,424 pages2001: 979 pages2001: 979 pages2001: 979 pages2001: 992 pages2001: 992 pages2002: 979 pages2002: 979 pages2004: 1,456 pages2005: 1,456 pages2011: 1,424 pagesmedian 992
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 11 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 21 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2011Penguin Random House–1,424OL33396644M
2005Dell–1,456OL7519659M
2004Doubleday Canada–1,456OL28736170M
2002Random–979OL20844898M
2002Dell–979OL24207004M
2001Delta–979OL19761987M
2001Delacorte Press–979OL3951900M
2001Delacorte Press–979OL23246074M

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Questions

How many pages is The Fiery Cross?
About 992 pages: that is the median of 11 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 979 to 1,456 pages.
How long does it take to read The Fiery Cross?
About 17 h 29 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 35 days.
How many words is The Fiery Cross?
Roughly 273,000 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).