Book · by Cormac McCarthy
How many pages is The Road?
The Road by Cormac McCarthy has a median of 287 pages across 11 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 287 to 305 pages.
How long will The Road 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 | 248 | 2 | 4 h 22 min |
| Paperback | 287 | 5 | 5 h 04 min |
| Mass market | 296 | 2 | 5 h 13 min |
Editions counted
The 11 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 84 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Pan Macmillan | – | 320 | OL28698660M |
| 2010 | Picador | Paperback | 306 | OL27962943M |
| 2009 | Vintage International | Paperback | 287 | OL22561333M |
| 2009 | Vintage International | Mass Market Paperback | 304 | OL24087493M |
| 2009 | Vintage International | – | 287 | OL23877809M |
| 2008 | Vintage International | Mass Market Paperback | 287 | OL26328791M |
| 2007 | Center Point Large Print | Hardcover | 254 | OL8817181M |
| 2007 | Picador | Paperback | 307 | OL27029537M |
| 2006 | Vintage International | Paperback | 287 | OL62234436M |
| 2006 | Alfred A. Knopf | Hardcover | 241 | OL15610563M |
| 2006 | Vintage International | Paperback | 287 | OL22263727M |
More by Cormac McCarthy
- 337 pagesBlood Meridian
- 320 pagesNo Country for Old Men
- 306 pagesAll the Pretty Horses
- 197 pagesChild of God
All 5 books by Cormac McCarthy with page counts
Questions
- How many pages is The Road?
- About 287 pages: that is the median of 11 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 241 to 320 pages.
- How long does it take to read The Road?
- About 5 h 04 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 11 days.
- How many words is The Road?
- Roughly 79,000 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)).