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How many pages is The Final Empire?

The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson has a median of 612 pages across 10 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 546 to 656 pages.

Median pages
612
10 editions counted
Range
541–672
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
11h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
168k
at 275 words per page
Book 1 of Mistborn
Series in order

How long will The Final Empire take you?

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Reading time
10 h 47 min
At 30 min a day
22 days
At 1 hour a day
11 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

55060065020102015202020252006: 541 pages2006: 544 pages2006: 672 pages2007: 657 pages2008: 655 pages2009: 647 pages2010: 544 pages2019: 672 pages2023: 576 pages2025: 552 pagesmedian 611
550600650201020202006: 541 pages2006: 544 pages2006: 672 pages2007: 657 pages2008: 655 pages2009: 647 pages2010: 544 pages2019: 672 pages2023: 576 pages2025: 552 pagesmedian 611
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 10 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 45 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2025Dragonsteel, LLCPaperback552OL62594701M
2023Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom–576OL38122529M
2019Tor Fantasymass market paperback672OL27314368M
2010Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom–544OL33980107M
2009Gollanczpaperback647OL28684446M
2008Tor Fantasyfantasy655OL24945060M
2007Tor FantasyPaperback657OL61173763M
2006Tor–541OL3418158M

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Questions

How many pages is The Final Empire?
About 612 pages: that is the median of 10 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 541 to 672 pages.
How long does it take to read The Final Empire?
About 10 h 47 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 22 days.
How many words is The Final Empire?
Roughly 168,000 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).