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How many pages is The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo?

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson has a median of 542 pages across 11 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 514 to 581 pages.

Median pages
542
11 editions counted
Range
465–841
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
9.6h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
149k
at 275 words per page
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How long will The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 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
9 h 33 min
At 30 min a day
20 days
At 1 hour a day
10 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

60080020082010201220142008: 793 pages2008: 572 pages2008: 554 pages2008: 465 pages2009: 590 pages2009: 841 pages2009: 542 pages2009: 542 pages2010: 465 pages2010: 486 pages2015: 542 pagesmedian 542
6008002010201220152008: 793 pages2008: 572 pages2008: 554 pages2008: 465 pages2009: 590 pages2009: 841 pages2009: 542 pages2009: 542 pages2010: 465 pages2010: 486 pages2015: 542 pagesmedian 542
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 11 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 78 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2015Quercus–542OL29402168M
2010Alfred A. KnopfHardcover465OL24662919M
2010alfred a. knopf new york–486OL58852921M
2009Vintage Crime/Black LizardPaperback590OL24571562M
2009Penquin Group (Canada)Paperback (MM)841OL27940684M
2009Maclehose PressPaperback542OL24231410M
2009Vintage Crime / Black Lizardpaperback542OL32237058M
2008Random House Large PrintPaperback793OL23023472M

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Questions

How many pages is The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo?
About 542 pages: that is the median of 11 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 465 to 841 pages.
How long does it take to read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo?
About 9 h 33 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 20 days.
How many words is The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo?
Roughly 149,000 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).