Book · by Margaret Atwood
How many pages is The Handmaid's Tale?
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood has a median of 336 pages across 35 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 318 to 358 pages.
How long will The Handmaid's Tale 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 | 337 | 8 | 5 h 56 min |
| Paperback | 324 | 12 | 5 h 43 min |
Editions counted
The 35 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 174 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | – | 336 | OL60891601M |
| 2022 | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company | – | 320 | OL34138276M |
| 2019 | Anchor Books | Paperback | 315 | OL35660304M |
| 2018 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 214 | OL55046555M |
| 2017 | Vintage | Paperback | 341 | OL36617937M |
| 2017 | Anchor Books | Paperback | 311 | OL24300458M |
| 2017 | Large Print Press | Paperback | 529 | OL36618751M |
| 2017 | Penguin Random House | – | 336 | OL30584825M |
| 2017 | Emblem McClelland & Stewart | paperback | 358 | OL31393678M |
| 2017 | Thorndike Press | hardcover | 531 | OL26871469M |
| 2016 | Vintage | paperback | 479 | OL26794243M |
| 2016 | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | hardcover | 311 | OL27398674M |
| 2014 | Emblem | Paperback | 358 | OL28753163M |
| 2010 | Vintage Books | Paperback | 324 | OL28449786M |
| 2009 | Vintage Books | Paperback | 324 | OL7319855M |
| 2007 | Everyman's Library | – | 350 | OL22747049M |
| 2006 | Everyman | – | 392 | OL28435270M |
| 2006 | Everyman's Library | Hardcover | 350 | OL22739261M |
| 2006 | McClelland & Stewart | Hardcover | 368 | OL8075256M |
| 2006 | McClelland & Stewart | – | 358 | OL22739273M |
| 2003 | Anchor Books | paperback | 311 | OL51647052M |
| 1999 | McClelland & Stewart | – | 358 | OL20164497M |
| 1998 | Seal Books | – | 402 | OL20838375M |
| 1996 | Vintage | – | 324 | OL18344350M |
| 1996 | Vintage Books | paperback | 320 | OL32042328M |
| 1995 | Turtleback Books | school & library binding | 312 | OL30533461M |
| 1993 | Fawcett Crest | Mass Market Paperback | 395 | OL15316358M |
| 1990 | Virago Press | Paperback | 324 | OL24209007M |
| 1989 | McClelland-Bantam | – | 293 | OL20778157M |
| 1987 | Virago | – | 324 | OL20822249M |
| 1986 | G.K. Hall | – | 443 | OL22139602M |
| 1986 | Jonathan Cape | Hardcover | 350 | OL22449759M |
| 1986 | Houghton Mifflin Company | Hardcover | 311 | OL20930937M |
| 1986 | McClelland & Stewart | – | 293 | OL18619325M |
| 1985 | McClelland & Stewart | Hardcover | 324 | OL2769393M |
More by Margaret Atwood
- 432 pagesThe Testaments
- 386 pagesOryx and Crake
- 545 pagesalias Grace
- 641 pagesThe Blind Assassin
- 199 pagesThe Penelopiad
- 441 pagesThe Year of the Flood
All 10 books by Margaret Atwood with page counts
Questions
- How many pages is The Handmaid's Tale?
- About 336 pages: that is the median of 35 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 214 to 531 pages.
- How long does it take to read The Handmaid's Tale?
- About 5 h 55 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 Handmaid's Tale?
- 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)).