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How many pages is The Five People You Meet in Heaven?

The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom has a median of 224 pages across 9 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 196 to 231 pages.

Median pages
224
9 editions counted
Range
196–322
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
3.9h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
62k
at 275 words per page

How long will The Five People You Meet in Heaven take you?

Starts at the fiction average of 260 words per minute and 275 words per page. Move the slider to your own speed.

Reading time
3 h 57 min
At 30 min a day
8 days
At 1 hour a day
4 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

2002503002004200620082003: 196 pages2003: 196 pages2003: 322 pages2003: 196 pages2004: 231 pages2004: 196 pages2004: 231 pages2007: 224 pages2009: 240 pagesmedian 224
2002503002004200620082003: 196 pages2003: 196 pages2003: 322 pages2003: 196 pages2004: 231 pages2004: 196 pages2004: 231 pages2007: 224 pages2009: 240 pagesmedian 224
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

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
Hardcover19643 h 27 min
Paperback22433 h 57 min

Editions counted

The 9 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 62 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2009Little, Brown Book Group Limited–240OL33387318M
2007HyperionPaperback224OL9512091M
2004Little, Brown Book Group Limited–231OL33365122M
2004HyperionHardcover196OL8367930M
2004Time Warner PaperbacksPaperback231OL7980814M
2003HyperionHardcover196OL39480298M
2003HyperionPaperback196OL36671590M
2003Random House Large PrintHardcover322OL23272760M

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Questions

How many pages is The Five People You Meet in Heaven?
About 224 pages: that is the median of 9 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 196 to 322 pages.
How long does it take to read The Five People You Meet in Heaven?
About 3 h 57 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 Five People You Meet in Heaven?
Roughly 62,000 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)).