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How many pages is The Lost Hero?

The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan has a median of 562 pages across 9 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 557 to 592 pages.

Median pages
562
9 editions counted
Range
553–708
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
9.9h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
155k
at 275 words per page
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Reading time
9 h 54 min
At 30 min a day
20 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.

600700201020122014201620182010: 557 pages2010: 553 pages2010: 708 pages2010: 562 pages2011: 560 pages2012: 592 pages2017: 576 pages2019: 592 pages2019: 557 pagesmedian 562
600700201020152010: 557 pages2010: 553 pages2010: 708 pages2010: 562 pages2011: 560 pages2012: 592 pages2017: 576 pages2019: 592 pages2019: 557 pagesmedian 562
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 9 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 1 more edition was set aside because the page count was less than half or more than 2.2 times the median, which usually means an abridged text, an omnibus, or a typing error. Open Library lists 53 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2019Disney-Hyperion–592OL29806741M
2019Disney Press–557OL53379177M
2017Puffinpaperback576OL32641047M
2012Disney-Hyperion–592OL26832077M
2011Puffin Bookspaperback560OL27296340M
2010Bound to Stay Bound Books–557OL53338844M
2010Disney - Hyperion–553OL42337798M
2010Thorndike Press–708OL28753038M

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Questions

How many pages is The Lost Hero?
About 562 pages: that is the median of 9 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 553 to 708 pages.
How long does it take to read The Lost Hero?
About 9 h 54 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 20 days.
How many words is The Lost Hero?
Roughly 155,000 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).