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How many pages is The School for Good and Evil?

The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani has a median of 504 pages across 10 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 490 to 540 pages.

Median pages
504
10 editions counted
Range
488–560
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
8.9h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
139k
at 275 words per page

How long will The School for Good and Evil take you?

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Reading time
8 h 53 min
At 30 min a day
18 days
At 1 hour a day
9 days

Page count of every edition, by year

Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.

500550201420162018202020222013: 488 pages2013: 488 pages2013: 544 pages2014: 512 pages2018: 488 pages2022: 496 pages2022: 560 pages2022: 528 pages2022: 560 pages2022: 496 pagesmedian 504
500550201520202013: 488 pages2013: 488 pages2013: 544 pages2014: 512 pages2018: 488 pages2022: 496 pages2022: 560 pages2022: 528 pages2022: 560 pages2022: 496 pagesmedian 504
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Pages by format

Hardcover, paperback and mass-market editions are typeset differently, so the same text can run to more or fewer pages.

FormatMedian pagesEditionsReading time
Hardcover49648 h 45 min
Paperback52859 h 18 min

Editions counted

The 10 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 17 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2022HarperCollins Publishers LimitedHardcover496OL38333569M
2022HarperCollinsHardcover560OL37931935M
2022HarperCollins Publishers LimitedPaperback528OL38336313M
2022HarperCollinsPaperback560OL37863921M
2022HarperCollinsChildren’sBooksHardcover496OL38810971M
2018HarperCollinsPaperback488OL25436213M
2014HarperCollins Publishers–512OL34154293M
2013HarperCollinsHardcover488OL28308820M

Questions

How many pages is The School for Good and Evil?
About 504 pages: that is the median of 10 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 488 to 560 pages.
How long does it take to read The School for Good and Evil?
About 8 h 53 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 18 days.
How many words is The School for Good and Evil?
Roughly 139,000 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)).