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How many pages is The Tombs of Atuan?

The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin has a median of 160 pages across 19 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 152 to 192 pages.

Median pages
160
19 editions counted
Range
146–320
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
2.8h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
44k
at 275 words per page
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How long will The Tombs of Atuan take you?

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Reading time
2 h 49 min
At 30 min a day
6 days
At 1 hour a day
3 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

20030019801990200020101971: 146 pages1971: 163 pages1972: 159 pages1972: 160 pages1974: 160 pages1975: 146 pages1984: 146 pages1984: 160 pages1985: 146 pages1988: 232 pages1989: 146 pages1991: 160 pages2001: 176 pages2001: 192 pages2001: 180 pages2001: 192 pages2002: 192 pages2004: 192 pages2019: 320 pagesmedian 160
200300198020001971: 146 pages1971: 163 pages1972: 159 pages1972: 160 pages1974: 160 pages1975: 146 pages1984: 146 pages1984: 160 pages1985: 146 pages1988: 232 pages1989: 146 pages1991: 160 pages2001: 176 pages2001: 192 pages2001: 180 pages2001: 192 pages2002: 192 pages2004: 192 pages2019: 320 pagesmedian 160
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
Hardcover18423 h 15 min
Paperback19243 h 23 min

Editions counted

The 19 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 67 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2019Orion Publishing Group, Limited–320OL33560815M
2004PocketPaperback192OL8456759M
2002AladdinPaperback192OL7730045M
2001AtheneumHardcover176OL7728196M
2001Tandem LibrarySchool & Library Binding192OL9573739M
2001Aladdin Paperbacks–180OL23026851M
2001AladdinPaperback192OL7729789M
1991Penguin–160OL14949242M

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Questions

How many pages is The Tombs of Atuan?
About 160 pages: that is the median of 19 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 146 to 320 pages.
How long does it take to read The Tombs of Atuan?
About 2 h 49 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 6 days.
How many words is The Tombs of Atuan?
Roughly 44,000 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).