Book · by Stephen King · first published 1992
How many pages is The Shining?
The Shining by Stephen King has a median of 464 pages across 25 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 447 to 518 pages.
How long will The Shining 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 | 576 | 4 | 10 h 09 min |
| Paperback | 512 | 7 | 9 h 02 min |
| Mass market | 447 | 7 | 7 h 53 min |
Editions counted
The 25 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 97 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Hodder Paperback | Paperback | 528 | OL25430840M |
| 2012 | Anchor Books | Paperback | 688 | OL28768855M |
| 2009 | BCA | – | 518 | OL51277199M |
| 2007 | Hodder & Stoughton | – | 512 | OL53243897M |
| 2006 | Hodder Paperback | Paperback | 512 | OL10680273M |
| 2002 | Turtleback | School & Library Binding | 505 | OL8459057M |
| 2002 | Pocket Books | Paperback | 528 | OL7949940M |
| 2002 | Pocket Books | Mass Market Paperback | 704 | OL7949728M |
| 2001 | Turtleback | School & Library Binding | 683 | OL8459425M |
| 1997 | Signet | Mass Market Paperback | 464 | OL22284121M |
| 1993 | G.K. Hall | Hardcover | 647 | OL1395943M |
| 1991 | Plume | Paperback | 432 | OL7590437M |
| 1991 | Signet | Mass Market Paperback | 447 | OL24219562M |
| 1988 | New English Library | Paperback | 447 | OL10631997M |
| 1986 | New American Library | Mass Market Paperback | 447 | OL24219563M |
| 1981 | New English Library | Mass Market Paperback | 416 | OL21446622M |
| 1980 | New American Library | – | 474 | OL53210900M |
| 1978 | New American Library | Mass Market Paperback | 447 | OL27912962M |
| 1978 | Signet | Paperback | 447 | OL7570785M |
| 1978 | New American Library | Mass Market Paperback | 447 | OL32037064M |
| 1978 | New American Library | – | 447 | OL53065105M |
| 1977 | Doubleday | – | 447 | OL4891753M |
| 1977 | Doubleday & Company, Inc. | – | 474 | OL43202368M |
| 1977 | Doubleday & Company, Inc. | – | 447 | OL53210407M |
| 1977 | New English Library | Hardcover | 447 | OL22312685M |
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Questions
- How many pages is The Shining?
- About 464 pages: that is the median of 25 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 416 to 704 pages.
- How long does it take to read The Shining?
- About 8 h 11 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 17 days.
- How many words is The Shining?
- Roughly 128,000 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)).