Book · by Thomas Harris · first published 1988
How many pages is The Silence of the Lambs?
The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris has a median of 352 pages across 12 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 330 to 367 pages.
How long will The Silence of the Lambs 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 | 338 | 3 | 5 h 58 min |
| Paperback | 328 | 2 | 5 h 47 min |
| Mass market | 367 | 3 | 6 h 28 min |
Editions counted
The 12 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 72 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Penguin Random House | – | 432 | OL28453384M |
| 2002 | Arrow Books | Mass Market Paperback | 421 | OL20048969M |
| 2001 | Center Point Publishing / Compass Press | Hardcover | 367 | OL6795506M |
| 1998 | St. Martin's Griffin | Paperback | 352 | OL9805792M |
| 1997 | Mandarin | – | 352 | OL18598786M |
| 1991 | St Martins Paperbacks | Mass Market Paperback | 367 | OL10393961M |
| 1991 | BCA | Hardcover | 295 | OL33891575M |
| 1991 | Mandarin | Paperback | 304 | OL7966070M |
| 1991 | St. Martin's Paperbacks | Mass Market Paperback | 367 | OL9330536M |
| 1989 | Heinemann | – | 295 | OL16258646M |
| 1988 | St. Martin's Press | Hardcover | 338 | OL2041524M |
| 1988 | Mandarin | – | 352 | OL22485223M |
More by Thomas Harris
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Questions
- How many pages is The Silence of the Lambs?
- About 352 pages: that is the median of 12 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 295 to 432 pages.
- How long does it take to read The Silence of the Lambs?
- About 6 h 12 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 13 days.
- How many words is The Silence of the Lambs?
- Roughly 97,000 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)).