Book · by Arundhati Roy · first published 1997
How many pages is The God of Small Things?
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy has a median of 334 pages across 17 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 321 to 340 pages.
How long will The God of Small Things 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 | 333 | 3 | 5 h 52 min |
| Paperback | 336 | 6 | 5 h 56 min |
Editions counted
The 17 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 65 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Vintage Canada | paperback | 321 | OL27404212M |
| 2011 | HarperCollins Publishers Limited | – | 368 | OL33407337M |
| 2009 | Fourth Estate | Paperback | 340 | OL31903704M |
| 2008 | Random House Trade Paperbacks | Paperback | 333 | OL24604480M |
| 2008 | Random House Trade Paperbacks | library binding | 333 | OL28132170M |
| 1999 | HarperPerennial | Paperback | 321 | OL33890721M |
| 1999 | ISIS Large Print Bks. | – | 420 | OL18401599M |
| 1998 | Flamingo | Paperback | 340 | OL31903694M |
| 1998 | ISIS Large Print Books | – | 334 | OL35454571M |
| 1998 | IndiaInk | Paperback | 340 | OL34853625M |
| 1997 | Flamingo | – | 339 | OL19815485M |
| 1997 | Vintage Canada | – | 321 | OL18368622M |
| 1997 | G.K. Hall | Hardcover | 455 | OL687178M |
| 1997 | Random House of Canada | – | 321 | OL16876962M |
| 1997 | Flamingo | – | 320 | OL16329313M |
| 1997 | Random House | Hardcover | 321 | OL31390125M |
| 1997 | IndiaInk | – | 339 | OL321882M |
Questions
- How many pages is The God of Small Things?
- About 334 pages: that is the median of 17 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 320 to 455 pages.
- How long does it take to read The God of Small Things?
- About 5 h 53 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 12 days.
- How many words is The God of Small Things?
- Roughly 92,000 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)).