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Book · by Jean M. Auel · first published 2002

How many pages is The Valley of Horses?

The Valley of Horses by Jean M. Auel has a median of 580 pages across 18 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 563 to 826 pages.

Median pages
580
18 editions counted
Range
483–1,040
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
10h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
159k
at 275 words per page
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How long will The Valley of Horses take you?

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Reading time
10 h 13 min
At 30 min a day
21 days
At 1 hour a day
11 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

4006008001,0001990200020101982: 502 pages1982: 582 pages1982: 512 pages1983: 1,039 pages1983: 571 pages1983: 544 pages1983: 576 pages1984: 576 pages1989: 560 pages1991: 1,039 pages1992: 1,040 pages1993: 1,040 pages1993: 588 pages2002: 868 pages2002: 592 pages2002: 483 pages2010: 577 pagesmedian 579
4006008001,0001990200020101982: 502 pages1982: 582 pages1982: 512 pages1983: 1,039 pages1983: 571 pages1983: 544 pages1983: 576 pages1984: 576 pages1989: 560 pages1991: 1,039 pages1992: 1,040 pages1993: 1,040 pages1993: 588 pages2002: 868 pages2002: 592 pages2002: 483 pages2010: 577 pagesmedian 579
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump). 1 edition without a publication year not plotted.

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
Paperback588310 h 22 min
Mass market568210 h 01 min

Editions counted

The 18 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 90 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2010Bantam–577OL27027486M
2002Random House Large Print–868OL3568984M
2002Coronet BooksPaperback592OL10676724M
2002Bantam Books–483OL25050699M
1993Chivers Press–1,040OL17500982M
1993Coronet BooksPaperback588OL10618736M
1992Chivers–1,040OL18773088M
1991Thorndike PrHardcover1,039OL8254394M

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Questions

How many pages is The Valley of Horses?
About 580 pages: that is the median of 18 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 483 to 1,040 pages.
How long does it take to read The Valley of Horses?
About 10 h 13 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 21 days.
How many words is The Valley of Horses?
Roughly 159,000 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).