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How many pages is The Girl Who Played with Fire?

The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson has a median of 630 pages across 7 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 569 to 738 pages.

Median pages
630
7 editions counted
Range
503–821
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
11h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
173k
at 275 words per page

How long will The Girl Who Played with Fire 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
11 h 06 min
At 30 min a day
23 days
At 1 hour a day
12 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

6008002007200820092010201120122009: 569 pages2009: 569 pages2009: 821 pages2009: 503 pages2009: 724 pages2010: 752 pages2010: 630 pagesmedian 630
6008002008201020122009: 569 pages2009: 569 pages2009: 821 pages2009: 503 pages2009: 724 pages2010: 752 pages2010: 630 pagesmedian 630
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
Paperback600210 h 34 min
Mass market738213 h 01 min

Editions counted

The 7 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 27 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2010Vintage Crime/Black LizardMass Market Paperback752OL24087076M
2010Vintage Crime/Black LizardPaperback630OL24112721M
2009Maclehose Press–569OL23225710M
2009Maclehose PressPaperback569OL24128264M
2009Random House Large Print–821OL23939277M
2009Alfred A. KnopfHardcover503OL24129897M
2009Vintage Crime/Black LizardMass Market Paperback724OL26388706M

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Questions

How many pages is The Girl Who Played with Fire?
About 630 pages: that is the median of 7 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 503 to 821 pages.
How long does it take to read The Girl Who Played with Fire?
About 11 h 06 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 23 days.
How many words is The Girl Who Played with Fire?
Roughly 173,000 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)).