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How many pages is The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon?

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King has a median of 240 pages across 14 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 218 to 263 pages.

Median pages
240
14 editions counted
Range
211–300
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
4.2h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
66k
at 275 words per page

How long will The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon 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
4 h 14 min
At 30 min a day
9 days
At 1 hour a day
5 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

20025030020002005201020151999: 216 pages1999: 224 pages1999: 261 pages1999: 224 pages1999: 224 pages1999: 216 pages1999: 216 pages2000: 264 pages2000: 292 pages2001: 211 pages2005: 272 pages2010: 300 pages2011: 256 pages2019: 256 pagesmedian 240
200250300200020101999: 216 pages1999: 224 pages1999: 261 pages1999: 224 pages1999: 224 pages1999: 216 pages1999: 216 pages2000: 264 pages2000: 292 pages2001: 211 pages2005: 272 pages2010: 300 pages2011: 256 pages2019: 256 pagesmedian 240
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
Hardcover22433 h 57 min
Mass market26824 h 43 min

Editions counted

The 14 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 70 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2019Hodder & Stoughton–256OL29450208M
2011Hodder & Stoughton–256OL29038799M
2010Hodder & Stoughton–300OL53244735M
2005PocketMass Market Paperback272OL8457066M
2001Circulo de Leitores–211OL22817549M
2000Pocket BooksMass Market Paperback264OL24952309M
2000Hodder & Stoughton–292OL19606517M
1999Book Club–216OL18615076M

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Questions

How many pages is The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon?
About 240 pages: that is the median of 14 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 211 to 300 pages.
How long does it take to read The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon?
About 4 h 14 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 9 days.
How many words is The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon?
Roughly 66,000 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)).