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How many pages is The Hunt for Red October?

The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy has a median of 474 pages across 14 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 469 to 508 pages.

Median pages
474
14 editions counted
Range
387–749
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
8.4h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
130k
at 275 words per page
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Reading time
8 h 21 min
At 30 min a day
17 days
At 1 hour a day
9 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

4006008001990200020101984: 414 pages1984: 469 pages1984: 387 pages1984: 479 pages1985: 469 pages1985: 469 pages1986: 749 pages1990: 469 pages1993: 479 pages1993: 544 pages1995: 479 pages1999: 432 pages1999: 656 pages2013: 518 pagesmedian 474
4006008001990200020101984: 414 pages1984: 469 pages1984: 387 pages1984: 479 pages1985: 469 pages1985: 469 pages1986: 749 pages1990: 469 pages1993: 479 pages1993: 544 pages1995: 479 pages1999: 432 pages1999: 656 pages2013: 518 pagesmedian 474
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 14 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 63 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2013Berkley Books–518OL29470219M
1999Berkley Trade–432OL7504466M
1999Tandem LibrarySchool & Library Binding656OL9442194M
1995HarperCollins–479OL17336550M
1993HarperCollins–479OL19850940M
1993HarperCollins–544OL22602398M
1990Berkley Books–469OL17838040M
1986Charnwood–749OL22453271M

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Questions

How many pages is The Hunt for Red October?
About 474 pages: that is the median of 14 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 387 to 749 pages.
How long does it take to read The Hunt for Red October?
About 8 h 21 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 Hunt for Red October?
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)); Wikidata: part of the series (P179) and series ordinal (Wikimedia Foundation / Wikidata contributors).