Book · by Dan Brown
How many pages is The Lost Symbol?
The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown has a median of 639 pages across 17 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 513 to 686 pages.
How long will The Lost Symbol 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 | 509 | 4 | 8 h 58 min |
| Paperback | 670 | 3 | 11 h 49 min |
| Mass market | 686 | 3 | 12 h 06 min |
Editions counted
The 17 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 122 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Corgi Books | mass market paperback (b format) | 686 | OL31987364M |
| 2016 | Transworld Publishers Limited | – | 688 | OL29029673M |
| 2013 | Transworld Publishers Limited | – | 688 | OL29157628M |
| 2013 | Corgi Books | Mass Market Paperback | 686 | OL29166467M |
| 2012 | Anchor Books | Paperback | 603 | OL26821109M |
| 2010 | Anchor Books | Mass Market Paperback | 639 | OL24377261M |
| 2010 | Corgi Books | Paperback | 670 | OL28433007M |
| 2010 | Transworld Publishers Limited | – | 528 | OL29038139M |
| 2010 | Windsor | Paragon | hardcover | 681 | OL33119666M |
| 2010 | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | – | 480 | OL29584376M |
| 2010 | Transworld Publishers Limited | – | 528 | OL29058658M |
| 2010 | Doubleday | – | 513 | OL27127655M |
| 2009 | Doubleday | Hardcover | 509 | OL23740956M |
| 2009 | Random House Large Print | Paperback | 784 | OL24090527M |
| 2009 | BCA | hardcover | 509 | OL35698542M |
| 2009 | Bantam Press | Hardcover | 509 | OL25539575M |
| 2009 | Penguin Random House | – | 672 | OL29006647M |
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Questions
- How many pages is The Lost Symbol?
- About 639 pages: that is the median of 17 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 480 to 784 pages.
- How long does it take to read The Lost Symbol?
- About 11 h 16 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 23 days.
- How many words is The Lost Symbol?
- Roughly 176,000 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).