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How many pages is The Hard Way?

The Hard Way by Lee Child has a median of 512 pages across 11 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 398 to 520 pages.

Median pages
512
11 editions counted
Range
371–592
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
9.0h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
141k
at 275 words per page
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How long will The Hard Way take you?

Starts at the fiction average of 260 words per minute and 275 words per page. Move the slider to your own speed.

Reading time
9 h 02 min
At 30 min a day
19 days
At 1 hour a day
10 days

Page count of every edition, by year

Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.

4005006002006200820102012201420162006: 371 pages2006: 592 pages2006: 397 pages2006: 371 pages2007: 512 pages2007: 528 pages2009: 512 pages2009: 512 pages2010: 400 pages2011: 544 pages2016: 512 pagesmedian 512
400500600201020152006: 371 pages2006: 592 pages2006: 397 pages2006: 371 pages2007: 512 pages2007: 528 pages2009: 512 pages2009: 512 pages2010: 400 pages2011: 544 pages2016: 512 pagesmedian 512
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 11 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 41 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2016DellMass Market Paperback512OL24087187M
2011Bantam Books–544OL28461586M
2010Random House Publishing Group–400OL29584923M
2009Random House Publishing Group–512OL29583435M
2009Penguin Random House–512OL29079209M
2007Dell–512OL7520252M
2007Bantam BooksPaperback528OL7850812M
2006Delacorte Press–371OL23274805M

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Questions

How many pages is The Hard Way?
About 512 pages: that is the median of 11 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 371 to 592 pages.
How long does it take to read The Hard Way?
About 9 h 02 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 19 days.
How many words is The Hard Way?
Roughly 141,000 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)); Wikidata: part of the series (P179) and series ordinal (Wikimedia Foundation / Wikidata contributors).