Book · by Joan Didion
How many pages is The White Album?
The White Album by Joan Didion has a median of 222 pages across 6 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; most editions have exactly 222 pages.
Median pages
222
6 editions counted
Range
221–224
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
4.3h
at 238 wpm (non-fiction average)
Words (est.)
61k
at 275 words per page
How long will The White Album take you?
Reading time
4 h 17 min
At 30 min a day
9 days
At 1 hour a day
5 days
Page count of every edition, by year
Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.
Editions counted
The 6 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 17 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | – | 222 | OL24566009M |
| 1990 | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | – | 224 | OL7424256M |
| 1981 | Penguin | – | 222 | OL18383067M |
| 1980 | Pocket Books | – | 221 | OL19523004M |
| 1979 | Simon and Schuster | – | 222 | OL4407074M |
| 1979 | Simon and Schuster | Hardcover | 222 | OL21500116M |
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Questions
- How many pages is The White Album?
- About 222 pages: that is the median of 6 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 221 to 224 pages.
- How long does it take to read The White Album?
- About 4 h 17 min at 238 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 9 days.
- How many words is The White Album?
- Roughly 61,000 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)).