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How many pages is The Sum of All Fears?

The Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy has a median of 914 pages across 13 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 802 to 1,030 pages.

Median pages
914
13 editions counted
Range
798–1,284
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
16h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
251k
at 275 words per page
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Reading time
16 h 07 min
At 30 min a day
33 days
At 1 hour a day
17 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

8001,0001,20019921995199720001991: 798 pages1991: 1,284 pages1991: 914 pages1991: 798 pages1991: 802 pages1992: 914 pages1992: 914 pages1992: 1,284 pages1993: 1,030 pages2002: 928 pages2002: 1,030 pages2002: 802 pagesmedian 914
8001,0001,200199520001991: 798 pages1991: 1,284 pages1991: 914 pages1991: 798 pages1991: 802 pages1992: 914 pages1992: 914 pages1992: 1,284 pages1993: 1,030 pages2002: 928 pages2002: 1,030 pages2002: 802 pagesmedian 914
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump). 1 edition without a publication year not plotted.

Editions counted

The 13 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 47 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2002Berkley–928OL7504708M
2002HarperCollins Publishers Limited–1,030OL28954902M
2002BCA–802OL19613358M
1993HarperCollins–1,030OL18211047M
1992Berkley–914OL24942737M
1992Berkley Books–914OL21996420M
1992Chivers Press–1,284OL17328585M
1991G. P. Putnam's SonsHardcover798OL1534115M

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Questions

How many pages is The Sum of All Fears?
About 914 pages: that is the median of 13 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 798 to 1,284 pages.
How long does it take to read The Sum of All Fears?
About 16 h 07 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 33 days.
How many words is The Sum of All Fears?
Roughly 251,000 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).