Book · by Stephen King · first published 1996
How many pages is The Green Mile?
The Green Mile by Stephen King has a median of 474 pages across 18 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 465 to 536 pages.
How long will The Green Mile 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 | 566 | 2 | 9 h 59 min |
| Paperback | 466 | 4 | 8 h 13 min |
| Mass market | 536 | 3 | 9 h 27 min |
Editions counted
The 18 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 3 more editions were 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 92 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Gallery Books | – | 432 | OL27097910M |
| 2017 | Pocket Books | mass market paperback | 512 | OL27403287M |
| 2008 | Gollancz | Paperback | 435 | OL29307092M |
| 2007 | Subterranean Press | Hardcover | 500 | OL8884544M |
| 2005 | Mass Market Paperback | 544 | OL8457069M | |
| 2003 | Thorndike Press | Hardcover | 633 | OL8136758M |
| 2000 | BCA | – | 465 | OL47679918M |
| 2000 | Scribner | – | 399 | OL6901677M |
| 1999 | BCA | – | 465 | OL53063635M |
| 1999 | Pocket Books | mass market paperback | 536 | OL52961064M |
| 1999 | BCA | – | 482 | OL53223768M |
| 1999 | Orion | – | 453 | OL43435761M |
| 1999 | Pocket Books | paperback | 536 | OL22860937M |
| 1999 | Pocket Books | – | 536 | OL22981262M |
| 1998 | Orion | Paperback | 467 | OL18604793M |
| 1998 | BCA | – | 465 | OL17582298M |
| 1997 | Plume | paperback | 465 | OL658734M |
| 1996 | Signet | – | 592 | OL7589631M |
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Questions
- How many pages is The Green Mile?
- About 474 pages: that is the median of 18 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 399 to 633 pages.
- How long does it take to read The Green Mile?
- About 8 h 22 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 17 days.
- How many words is The Green Mile?
- Roughly 130,000 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)).