Book · by Richard Dawkins · first published 2006
How many pages is The God Delusion?
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins has a median of 440 pages across 8 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 416 to 463 pages.
How long will The God Delusion 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 | 416 | 2 | 8 h 01 min |
| Paperback | 463 | 3 | 8 h 55 min |
Editions counted
The 8 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 34 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company | – | 416 | OL29567981M |
| 2008 | Mariner Books | – | 464 | OL7606592M |
| 2007 | Black Swan | Paperback | 463 | OL24330288M |
| 2007 | WF Howes | – | 580 | OL32102238M |
| 2007 | Black Swan | Paperback | 463 | OL25884719M |
| 2006 | Houghton Mifflin | Hardcover | 416 | OL25129006M |
| 2006 | Houghton Mifflin Company | Paperback | 406 | OL10659634M |
| 2006 | Bantam | Hardcover | 416 | OL22738023M |
More by Richard Dawkins
- 352 pagesThe Selfish Gene
- 363 pagesThe Blind Watchmaker
- 272 pagesThe Magic of Reality
- 673 pagesThe Ancestor's Tale
All 5 books by Richard Dawkins with page counts
Questions
- How many pages is The God Delusion?
- About 440 pages: that is the median of 8 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 406 to 580 pages.
- How long does it take to read The God Delusion?
- About 8 h 28 min at 238 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 17 days.
- How many words is The God Delusion?
- Roughly 121,000 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)).