Book · by Stephen Chbosky
How many pages is The Perks of Being a Wallflower?
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky has a median of 224 pages across 12 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 213 to 232 pages.
How long will The Perks of Being a Wallflower 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 | 213 | 2 | 3 h 45 min |
| Paperback | 231 | 7 | 4 h 04 min |
Editions counted
The 12 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 51 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | MTV Books/Gallery Books | hardcover | 213 | OL46891500M |
| 2012 | Simon and Schuster | paperback | 231 | OL50096969M |
| 2012 | Simon & Schuster | paperback | 231 | OL37845607M |
| 2012 | MTV Books | paperback | 216 | OL27650141M |
| 2012 | Simon & Schuster, Limited | – | 240 | OL29157122M |
| 2010 | Ulverscroft | – | 297 | OL31463076M |
| 2009 | Pocket Books | Paperback | 232 | OL27048943M |
| 2009 | Pocket Books | paperback | 232 | OL34838689M |
| 1999 | Pocket Books | – | 213 | OL114584M |
| 1999 | MTV Books | Hardcover | 213 | OL60959007M |
| 1999 | gallery books | Paperback | 213 | OL25430162M |
| 1999 | Pocket Books | Trade Paperback | 213 | OL23243627M |
Questions
- How many pages is The Perks of Being a Wallflower?
- About 224 pages: that is the median of 12 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 213 to 297 pages.
- How long does it take to read The Perks of Being a Wallflower?
- About 3 h 56 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 8 days.
- How many words is The Perks of Being a Wallflower?
- Roughly 61,000 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)).