Book · by Jeannette Walls
How many pages is The Glass Castle?
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls has a median of 304 pages across 9 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 288 to 341 pages.
How long will The Glass Castle 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 | 296 | 2 | 5 h 42 min |
| Paperback | 288 | 2 | 5 h 33 min |
Editions counted
The 9 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 32 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Scribner | – | 320 | OL37088324M |
| 2017 | Virago | – | 352 | OL26758116M |
| 2010 | Little, Brown Book Group Limited | – | 352 | OL33409885M |
| 2009 | Scribner | – | 288 | OL24854056M |
| 2006 | Scribner | library binding | 304 | OL43101802M |
| 2006 | Scribner | Paperback | 288 | OL7928299M |
| 2005 | Virago | – | 341 | OL32886200M |
| 2005 | Scribner | Hardback | 288 | OL3309881M |
| 2005 | Scribner | paperback | 288 | OL40279489M |
Questions
- How many pages is The Glass Castle?
- About 304 pages: that is the median of 9 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 288 to 352 pages.
- How long does it take to read The Glass Castle?
- About 5 h 51 min at 238 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 12 days.
- How many words is The Glass Castle?
- Roughly 84,000 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)).