Love Books Daily

Book · by Larry Niven

How many pages is The Ringworld Engineers?

The Ringworld Engineers by Larry Niven has a median of 355 pages across 5 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 354 to 357 pages.

Median pages
355
5 editions counted
Range
307–368
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
6.3h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
98k
at 275 words per page
Book 2 of Ringworld series
Previous: Ringworld · Next: The Ringworld Throne
Series in order

How long will The Ringworld Engineers take you?

Starts at the fiction average of 260 words per minute and 275 words per page. Move the slider to your own speed.

Reading time
6 h 15 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.

3003253503751980198119821983198419851980: 354 pages1980: 307 pages1980: 357 pages1981: 355 pages1985: 368 pagesmedian 355
3003253503751980198219841980: 354 pages1980: 307 pages1980: 357 pages1981: 355 pages1985: 368 pagesmedian 355
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 5 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 22 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
1985Del ReyMass Market Paperback368OL9815347M
1981Ballantine Books–355OL25575156M
1980Gollancz–354OL18214312M
1980Holt, Rinehart and Winston–307OL16508234M
1980Holt, Rinehart, and Winston–357OL4415131M

More by Larry Niven

All 4 books by Larry Niven with page counts

Questions

How many pages is The Ringworld Engineers?
About 355 pages: that is the median of 5 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 307 to 368 pages.
How long does it take to read The Ringworld Engineers?
About 6 h 15 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 Ringworld Engineers?
Roughly 98,000 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).