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How many pages is The Silent Patient?

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides has a median of 336 pages across 5 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 336 to 339 pages.

Median pages
336
5 editions counted
Range
304–352
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
5.9h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
92k
at 275 words per page

How long will The Silent Patient 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
5 h 55 min
At 30 min a day
12 days
At 1 hour a day
6 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

300320340360201720182019202020212019: 336 pages2019: 304 pages2019: 336 pages2019: 352 pages2019: 339 pagesmedian 336
300320340360201820202019: 336 pages2019: 304 pages2019: 336 pages2019: 352 pages2019: 339 pagesmedian 336
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 5 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 1 more edition was set aside because the page count was less than half or more than 2.2 times the median, which usually means an abridged text, an omnibus, or a typing error. Open Library lists 26 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2019Celadon Books–336OL28931352M
2019Celadon Books–304OL29794168M
2019Celadon BooksHardcover336OL26765750M
2019Orion Publishing Group, Limited–352OL28649100M
2019Orion Publishing Group, LimitedPaperback339OL29408403M

Questions

How many pages is The Silent Patient?
About 336 pages: that is the median of 5 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 304 to 352 pages.
How long does it take to read The Silent Patient?
About 5 h 55 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 12 days.
How many words is The Silent Patient?
Roughly 92,000 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)).