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How many pages is The Shelters of Stone?

The Shelters of Stone by Jean M. Auel has a median of 784 pages across 14 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 769 to 872 pages.

Median pages
784
14 editions counted
Range
753–1,216
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
14h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
216k
at 275 words per page
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How long will The Shelters of Stone take you?

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Reading time
13 h 49 min
At 30 min a day
28 days
At 1 hour a day
14 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

8001,0001,200200220042006200820102002: 784 pages2002: 1,189 pages2002: 753 pages2002: 1,216 pages2002: 769 pages2002: 896 pages2002: 784 pages2002: 753 pages2003: 896 pages2003: 790 pages2003: 800 pages2004: 768 pages2010: 770 pages2010: 780 pagesmedian 784
8001,0001,200200520102002: 784 pages2002: 1,189 pages2002: 753 pages2002: 1,216 pages2002: 769 pages2002: 896 pages2002: 784 pages2002: 753 pages2003: 896 pages2003: 790 pages2003: 800 pages2004: 768 pages2010: 770 pages2010: 780 pagesmedian 784
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
Hardcover1,000217 h 38 min
Paperback784213 h 49 min

Editions counted

The 14 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 49 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2010Bantam–770OL27049565M
2010Hodder–780OL27051105M
2004BantamPaperback768OL7826578M
2003Bantam–896OL24651891M
2003Coronet Books–790OL51165815M
2003Coronet BooksPaperback800OL10676656M
2002Hodder & Stoughton LtdHardcover784OL10676655M
2002Random House Large Print–1,189OL21994073M

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Questions

How many pages is The Shelters of Stone?
About 784 pages: that is the median of 14 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 753 to 1,216 pages.
How long does it take to read The Shelters of Stone?
About 13 h 49 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 28 days.
How many words is The Shelters of Stone?
Roughly 216,000 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).