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How many pages is The Shadow Rising?

The Shadow Rising by Robert Jordan has a median of 856 pages across 6 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 702 to 1,020 pages.

Median pages
856
6 editions counted
Range
699–1,056
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
15h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
235k
at 275 words per page
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How long will The Shadow Rising 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
15 h 05 min
At 30 min a day
31 days
At 1 hour a day
16 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

8001,0002000201020201992: 699 pages1992: 704 pages1992: 701 pages1993: 1,008 pages2010: 1,056 pages2021: 1,024 pagesmedian 856
8001,0002000201020201992: 699 pages1992: 704 pages1992: 701 pages1993: 1,008 pages2010: 1,056 pages2021: 1,024 pagesmedian 856
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 6 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 34 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2021Little, Brown Book Group Limited–1,024OL33907587M
2010Little, Brown Book Group Limited–1,056OL33398711M
1993Tor FantasyMass Market Paperback1,008OL9516108M
1992Orbit–699OL21132698M
1992TORHardcover704OL21261631M
1992TOR–701OL1720857M

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Questions

How many pages is The Shadow Rising?
About 856 pages: that is the median of 6 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 699 to 1,056 pages.
How long does it take to read The Shadow Rising?
About 15 h 05 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 31 days.
How many words is The Shadow Rising?
Roughly 235,000 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).