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How many pages is The Subtle Knife?

The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman has a median of 352 pages across 25 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 326 to 368 pages.

Median pages
352
25 editions counted
Range
256–493
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
6.2h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
97k
at 275 words per page
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How long will The Subtle Knife take you?

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Reading time
6 h 12 min
At 30 min a day
13 days
At 1 hour a day
7 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

300400500200020052010201520201997: 326 pages1997: 426 pages1997: 341 pages1998: 288 pages1998: 352 pages1999: 352 pages2001: 352 pages2001: 326 pages2002: 326 pages2002: 493 pages2002: 368 pages2003: 288 pages2005: 352 pages2007: 304 pages2007: 368 pages2007: 325 pages2007: 368 pages2009: 365 pages2011: 368 pages2015: 448 pages2015: 368 pages2019: 320 pages2020: 368 pages2021: 256 pages2021: 352 pagesmedian 352
3004005002000201020201997: 326 pages1997: 426 pages1997: 341 pages1998: 288 pages1998: 352 pages1999: 352 pages2001: 352 pages2001: 326 pages2002: 326 pages2002: 493 pages2002: 368 pages2003: 288 pages2005: 352 pages2007: 304 pages2007: 368 pages2007: 325 pages2007: 368 pages2009: 365 pages2011: 368 pages2015: 448 pages2015: 368 pages2019: 320 pages2020: 368 pages2021: 256 pages2021: 352 pagesmedian 352
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
Hardcover35426 h 15 min
Paperback33965 h 59 min

Editions counted

The 25 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 106 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2021Scholastic–256OL33961714M
2021Scholastic–352OL33929219M
2020Random House Children's Books–368OL30247715M
2019Roca Editorialpaperback320OL36634844M
2015Random House Children's Books–448OL33497865M
2015Scholasticpaperback368OL26876985M
2011Scholasticpaperback368OL28794861M
2009Galaxy Plus–365OL28988196M

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Questions

How many pages is The Subtle Knife?
About 352 pages: that is the median of 25 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 256 to 493 pages.
How long does it take to read The Subtle Knife?
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 Subtle Knife?
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)); Wikidata: part of the series (P179) and series ordinal (Wikimedia Foundation / Wikidata contributors).