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How many pages is War Horse?

War Horse by Michael Morpurgo has a median of 158 pages across 10 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 149 to 188 pages.

Median pages
158
10 editions counted
Range
128–208
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
2.8h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
44k
at 275 words per page

How long will War Horse 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
2 h 48 min
At 30 min a day
6 days
At 1 hour a day
3 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

1502001990200020101982: 142 pages1983: 148 pages1988: 151 pages2004: 208 pages2007: 176 pages2010: 165 pages2010: 128 pages2011: 208 pages2018: 152 pages2018: 192 pagesmedian 158
15020020001982: 142 pages1983: 148 pages1988: 151 pages2004: 208 pages2007: 176 pages2010: 165 pages2010: 128 pages2011: 208 pages2018: 152 pages2018: 192 pagesmedian 158
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 10 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 1 more edition was set aside because the page count was less than half or more than 2.2 times the median, which usually means an abridged text, an omnibus, or a typing error. Open Library lists 54 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2018Oxford University Press–152OL28707475M
2018Egmont Books, Limited–192OL33485663M
2011AudioGO by arrangement with Egmont–208OL32152927M
2010Scholastic–165OL24337925M
2010Oxford University Press–128OL28445928M
2007Scholastic Press–176OL7515562M
2004Egmont–208OL28264431M
1988ABC-Clio IncHardcover151OL9483100M

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Questions

How many pages is War Horse?
About 158 pages: that is the median of 10 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 128 to 208 pages.
How long does it take to read War Horse?
About 2 h 48 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 6 days.
How many words is War Horse?
Roughly 44,000 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)).