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How many pages is The Vampire Lestat?

The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice has a median of 555 pages across 8 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 492 to 560 pages.

Median pages
555
8 editions counted
Range
481–600
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
9.8h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
153k
at 275 words per page
Book 2 of The Vampire Chronicles
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How long will The Vampire Lestat take you?

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Reading time
9 h 47 min
At 30 min a day
20 days
At 1 hour a day
10 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

50055060019901995200020051989: 550 pages1991: 600 pages1997: 496 pages1998: 481 pages2000: 481 pages2004: 560 pages2004: 560 pages2008: 560 pagesmedian 555
500550600199020001989: 550 pages1991: 600 pages1997: 496 pages1998: 481 pages2000: 481 pages2004: 560 pages2004: 560 pages2008: 560 pagesmedian 555
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
Paperback54829 h 40 min
Mass market55529 h 47 min

Editions counted

The 8 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 53 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2008Little, Brown Book Group Limited–560OL29001976M
2004Random House Publishing Group–560OL29568218M
2004Ballantine BooksMass Market Paperback560OL9617054M
2000Knopf–481OL20932528M
1998Alfred A. KnopfHardcover481OL2549946M
1997Ballantine BooksPaperback496OL9413178M
1991Time Warner PaperbacksPaperback600OL7777816M
1989Ballantine BooksMass Market Paperback550OL24766055M

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Questions

How many pages is The Vampire Lestat?
About 555 pages: that is the median of 8 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 481 to 600 pages.
How long does it take to read The Vampire Lestat?
About 9 h 47 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 20 days.
How many words is The Vampire Lestat?
Roughly 153,000 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).