Book · by Donna Tartt
How many pages is The Secret History?
The Secret History by Donna Tartt has a median of 559 pages across 9 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 544 to 592 pages.
Median pages
559
9 editions counted
Range
523–648
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
9.9h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
154k
at 275 words per page
How long will The Secret History take you?
Reading time
9 h 51 min
At 30 min a day
20 days
At 1 hour a day
10 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 9 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 52 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Little, Brown Book Group Limited | – | 544 | OL33459784M |
| 2008 | Penguin Books, Limited | – | 648 | OL28436911M |
| 2007 | Penguin | Paperback | 628 | OL38246222M |
| 2004 | Vintage Contemporaries | – | 559 | OL3319855M |
| 2004 | Vintage Books | – | 557 | OL24933958M |
| 2002 | Ballantine Books | – | 559 | OL18919423M |
| 1996 | Ballantine Books | – | 592 | OL7569078M |
| 1992 | Viking | – | 523 | OL18531069M |
| 1992 | Knopf | hardback | 523 | OL1744188M |
Questions
- How many pages is The Secret History?
- About 559 pages: that is the median of 9 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 523 to 648 pages.
- How long does it take to read The Secret History?
- About 9 h 51 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 20 days.
- How many words is The Secret History?
- Roughly 154,000 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)).