Book · by Lois Lowry · first published 1999
How many pages is The Giver?
The Giver by Lois Lowry has a median of 205 pages across 24 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 180 to 225 pages.
How long will The Giver take you?
Page count of every edition, by year
Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.
Pages by format
Hardcover, paperback and mass-market editions are typeset differently, so the same text can run to more or fewer pages.
| Format | Median pages | Editions | Reading time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 194 | 2 | 3 h 25 min |
| Paperback | 225 | 3 | 3 h 58 min |
Editions counted
The 24 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 107 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company | – | 256 | OL29699077M |
| 2012 | Houghton Mifflin | – | 225 | OL30721387M |
| 2011 | Houghton Mifflin Books for Children | – | 197 | OL25341199M |
| 2011 | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company | – | 208 | OL29654856M |
| 2008 | HarperCollins Publishers Limited | – | 240 | OL28449906M |
| 2006 | Delacorte Books for Young Readers | – | 179 | OL7441983M |
| 2004 | Thorndike Press | Board book | 226 | OL8136963M |
| 2002 | Harpercollins Pub Ltd | – | 219 | OL33452021M |
| 2002 | Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers | – | 179 | OL24875576M |
| 2002 | Tandem Library | School & Library Binding | 179 | OL9859550M |
| 2002 | Laurel Leaf Books | – | 179 | OL18887216M |
| 2002 | EMC/Paradigm Pub. | – | 202 | OL3955208M |
| 1999 | Bantam Books for Young Readers | Mass Market Paperback | 180 | OL7829676M |
| 1999 | Yearling & Newberry | Paperback | 208 | OL7520057M |
| 1999 | Diddy | Hardcover | 208 | OL57945037M |
| 1994 | Laurel Leaf | – | 180 | OL7519509M |
| 1993 | Houghton Mifflin | – | 180 | OL24779509M |
| 1993 | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company | – | 225 | OL25671283M |
| 1993 | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | paperback | 240 | OL26235565M |
| 1993 | Houghton Mifflin | – | 180 | OL1712916M |
| 1993 | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company | – | 192 | OL29591564M |
| 1993 | Houghton Mifflin | – | 180 | OL23292543M |
| 1993 | HMH | Paperback | 225 | OL26397551M |
| 1993 | Thorndike Press | – | 226 | OL1412107M |
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Questions
- How many pages is The Giver?
- About 205 pages: that is the median of 24 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 179 to 256 pages.
- How long does it take to read The Giver?
- About 3 h 37 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 Giver?
- Roughly 56,000 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).