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How many pages is The Hunger Games?

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins has a median of 436 pages across 28 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 378 to 455 pages.

Median pages
436
28 editions counted
Range
222–514
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
7.7h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
120k
at 275 words per page
Book 1 of The Hunger Games
Series in order

How long will The Hunger Games take you?

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Reading time
7 h 41 min
At 30 min a day
16 days
At 1 hour a day
8 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

20030040050020102015202020252008: 374 pages2008: 374 pages2008: 374 pages2009: 374 pages2009: 380 pages2010: 384 pages2010: 384 pages2011: 454 pages2011: 464 pages2012: 374 pages2012: 464 pages2012: 222 pages2012: 458 pages2012: 458 pages2012: 458 pages2013: 454 pages2013: 514 pages2014: 480 pages2014: 442 pages2014: 384 pages2014: 448 pages2015: 448 pages2015: 400 pages2015: 368 pages2018: 440 pages2018: 441 pages2018: 432 pages2025: 384 pagesmedian 436
200300400500201020202008: 374 pages2008: 374 pages2008: 374 pages2009: 374 pages2009: 380 pages2010: 384 pages2010: 384 pages2011: 454 pages2011: 464 pages2012: 374 pages2012: 464 pages2012: 222 pages2012: 458 pages2012: 458 pages2012: 458 pages2013: 454 pages2013: 514 pages2014: 480 pages2014: 442 pages2014: 384 pages2014: 448 pages2015: 448 pages2015: 400 pages2015: 368 pages2018: 440 pages2018: 441 pages2018: 432 pages2025: 384 pagesmedian 436
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Pages by format

Hardcover, paperback and mass-market editions are typeset differently, so the same text can run to more or fewer pages.

FormatMedian pagesEditionsReading time
Hardcover37426 h 36 min
Paperback442147 h 47 min

Editions counted

The 28 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 143 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2025ScholasticPaperback384OL57558534M
2018Scholastic, Incorporated–440OL28892755M
2018ScholasticPaperback441OL37079286M
2018Scholastic, Incorporated–432OL28709462M
2015Scholastic–448OL29550720M
2015Scholastic–400OL28497295M
2015CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform–368OL55622654M
2014Scholastic Australiapaperback480OL28553300M

More by Suzanne Collins

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Questions

How many pages is The Hunger Games?
About 436 pages: that is the median of 28 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 222 to 514 pages.
How long does it take to read The Hunger Games?
About 7 h 41 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 16 days.
How many words is The Hunger Games?
Roughly 120,000 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).