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How many pages is Violets Are Blue?

Violets Are Blue by James Patterson has a median of 398 pages across 10 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 338 to 416 pages.

Median pages
398
10 editions counted
Range
310–480
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
7.0h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
110k
at 275 words per page
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How long will Violets Are Blue take you?

Starts at the fiction average of 260 words per minute and 275 words per page. Move the slider to your own speed.

Reading time
7 h 01 min
At 30 min a day
15 days
At 1 hour a day
8 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

300400500200220042006200820102001: 310 pages2001: 393 pages2001: 393 pages2001: 404 pages2001: 416 pages2001: 310 pages2001: 320 pages2002: 480 pages2002: 416 pages2010: 480 pagesmedian 398
300400500200520102001: 310 pages2001: 393 pages2001: 393 pages2001: 404 pages2001: 416 pages2001: 310 pages2001: 320 pages2002: 480 pages2002: 416 pages2010: 480 pagesmedian 398
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
Hardcover36326 h 24 min
Paperback40027 h 03 min

Editions counted

The 10 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 44 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2010Headline Publishing Group–480OL28733505M
2002HeadlinePaperback480OL7960494M
2002Warner Vision Books–416OL7537693M
2001Little Brown and CompanyHardcover310OL9602106M
2001Little, Brown–393OL3947236M
2001Little, Brown–393OL24956738M
2001Warner Books–404OL20785036M
2001Little, BrownHardcover416OL9875103M

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Questions

How many pages is Violets Are Blue?
About 398 pages: that is the median of 10 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 310 to 480 pages.
How long does it take to read Violets Are Blue?
About 7 h 01 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 15 days.
How many words is Violets Are Blue?
Roughly 110,000 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).