Book · by Rick Riordan
How many pages is The Lightning Thief?
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan has a median of 384 pages across 18 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 377 to 400 pages.
How long will The Lightning Thief 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 | 384 | 5 | 6 h 46 min |
| Paperback | 400 | 5 | 7 h 03 min |
Editions counted
The 18 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 110 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Penguin Books, Limited | – | 400 | OL60843987M |
| 2024 | Disney-Hyperion | Hardcover | 416 | OL50713516M |
| 2024 | Penguin Books, Limited | Hardcover | 416 | OL52550966M |
| 2023 | Disney Hyperion | Paperback | 416 | OL48784796M |
| 2023 | Puffin | Paperback | 400 | OL49510455M |
| 2018 | Disney-Hyperion | – | 226 | OL26977202M |
| 2010 | Penguin | – | 384 | OL26709312M |
| 2010 | Disney Hyperion | Paperback | 400 | OL24087221M |
| 2009 | Hyperion Book CH | Hardcover | 384 | OL24086210M |
| 2008 | Penguin | mass market paperback | 376 | OL27314717M |
| 2006 | Disney Hyperion | Paperback | 377 | OL26910696M |
| 2006 | Scholastic Inc. | – | 375 | OL26811309M |
| 2006 | Thorndike Press | Board book | 483 | OL8137098M |
| 2005 | Disney - Hyperion | – | 384 | OL42344729M |
| 2005 | Miramax Books | Hardcover | 384 | OL25747413M |
| 2005 | Galaxy Plus | paperback | 362 | OL27284483M |
| 2005 | Miramax Books/Hyperion Books for Children | Hardcover | 377 | OL3439844M |
| 2005 | Bound to Stay Bound Books | – | 377 | OL53339216M |
More by Rick Riordan
- 562 pagesThe Lost Hero
- 279 pagesThe Sea of Monsters
- 312 pagesThe Titan's Curse
- 376 pagesThe Last Olympian
- 364 pagesThe Battle of the Labyrinth
- 602 pagesThe Mark of Athena
All 27 books by Rick Riordan with page counts
Questions
- How many pages is The Lightning Thief?
- About 384 pages: that is the median of 18 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 226 to 483 pages.
- How long does it take to read The Lightning Thief?
- About 6 h 46 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 14 days.
- How many words is The Lightning Thief?
- Roughly 106,000 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).