Book · by Alice Sebold
How many pages is The Lovely Bones?
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold has a median of 368 pages across 13 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 328 to 372 pages.
Median pages
368
13 editions counted
Range
328–532
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
6.5h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
101k
at 275 words per page
How long will The Lovely Bones take you?
Reading time
6 h 29 min
At 30 min a day
13 days
At 1 hour a day
7 days
Page count of every edition, by year
Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.
Editions counted
The 13 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 88 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Little Brown & Company | – | 368 | OL29713473M |
| 2009 | Back Bay Books | – | 328 | OL26335401M |
| 2007 | Back Bay Books | Paperback | 368 | OL10426035M |
| 2006 | Little, Brown and Company | – | 372 | OL22236387M |
| 2004 | Back Bay Books | – | 370 | OL50210691M |
| 2004 | Back Bay Books | – | 328 | OL14447476M |
| 2004 | Large Print Press | – | 532 | OL3692803M |
| 2003 | Picador | – | 328 | OL16202159M |
| 2002 | Little, Brown | – | 328 | OL3953260M |
| 2002 | Picador | – | 328 | OL15495598M |
| 2002 | Thorndike Press | – | 511 | OL3569950M |
| 2002 | Bay Back Books | – | 374 | OL58931405M |
| – | Pan Macmillan | – | 338 | OL43675599M |
Questions
- How many pages is The Lovely Bones?
- About 368 pages: that is the median of 13 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 328 to 532 pages.
- How long does it take to read The Lovely Bones?
- About 6 h 29 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 13 days.
- How many words is The Lovely Bones?
- Roughly 101,000 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)).