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How many pages is Timeline?

Timeline by Michael Crichton has a median of 496 pages across 9 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 450 to 496 pages.

Median pages
496
9 editions counted
Range
450–755
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
8.7h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
136k
at 275 words per page

How long will Timeline take you?

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Reading time
8 h 45 min
At 30 min a day
18 days
At 1 hour a day
9 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

500600700800199920002001200220031999: 755 pages1999: 450 pages2000: 496 pages2000: 450 pages2000: 450 pages2000: 494 pages2000: 496 pages2000: 496 pages2003: 512 pagesmedian 496
500600700800200020021999: 755 pages1999: 450 pages2000: 496 pages2000: 450 pages2000: 450 pages2000: 494 pages2000: 496 pages2000: 496 pages2003: 512 pagesmedian 496
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
Hardcover45037 h 56 min
Mass market49638 h 45 min

Editions counted

The 9 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 64 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2003Ballantine BooksPaperback512OL9856170M
2000Ballantine BooksMass Market Paperback496OL24382110M
2000BCAHardcover450OL39479444M
2000BCAHardcover450OL22120295M
2000Arrow–494OL18402089M
2000Ballantine BooksMass Market Paperback496OL26644005M
2000Ballantine BooksMass Market Paperback496OL10686038M
1999Random House Large Print–755OL43240M

More by Michael Crichton

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Questions

How many pages is Timeline?
About 496 pages: that is the median of 9 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 450 to 755 pages.
How long does it take to read Timeline?
About 8 h 45 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 18 days.
How many words is Timeline?
Roughly 136,000 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)).