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How many pages is The Truth?

The Truth by Terry Pratchett has a median of 368 pages across 11 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 322 to 448 pages.

Median pages
368
11 editions counted
Range
319–448
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
6.5h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
101k
at 275 words per page
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Reading time
6 h 29 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.

3003504004502000200520102000: 324 pages2000: 319 pages2000: 324 pages2001: 319 pages2001: 444 pages2001: 368 pages2003: 319 pages2003: 448 pages2007: 448 pages2008: 448 pages2013: 448 pagesmedian 368
3003504004502000200520102000: 324 pages2000: 319 pages2000: 324 pages2001: 319 pages2001: 444 pages2001: 368 pages2003: 319 pages2003: 448 pages2007: 448 pages2008: 448 pages2013: 448 pagesmedian 368
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 11 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 37 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2013Corgi–448OL28502780M
2008Transworld Publishers Limited–448OL33425341M
2007CorgiPaperback448OL7815564M
2003Book Club–319OL22025045M
2003Tandem Library–448OL7600775M
2001BCAHardcover319OL24329286M
2001Corgi BooksPaperback444OL7815307M
2001HarperTorch–368OL7435625M

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Questions

How many pages is The Truth?
About 368 pages: that is the median of 11 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 319 to 448 pages.
How long does it take to read The Truth?
About 6 h 29 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 Truth?
Roughly 101,000 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).