Book · by Gregory Maguire
How many pages is Wicked?
Wicked by Gregory Maguire has a median of 460 pages across 18 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 416 to 512 pages.
How long will Wicked take you?
Page count of every edition, by year
Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.
Pages by format
Hardcover, paperback and mass-market editions are typeset differently, so the same text can run to more or fewer pages.
| Format | Median pages | Editions | Reading time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 416 | 3 | 7 h 20 min |
| Paperback | 416 | 3 | 7 h 20 min |
Editions counted
The 18 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.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | HarperCollins Publishers | – | 480 | OL60888076M |
| 2025 | Headline Publishing Group | – | 512 | OL60831255M |
| 2024 | Headline Publishing Group | – | 512 | OL53273461M |
| 2020 | HarperCollins Publishers | – | 448 | OL30197393M |
| 2011 | Headline Publishing Group | – | 473 | OL57513353M |
| 2008 | HarperLuxe | Paperback | 416 | OL9953267M |
| 2007 | Rayo | – | 508 | OL7290047M |
| 2007 | Harper | Paperback | 538 | OL24374332M |
| 2006 | Headline Publishing Group | – | 512 | OL28981008M |
| 2004 | Harper Paperbacks | Paperback | 409 | OL9235601M |
| 2004 | ReganBooks | – | 409 | OL22378125M |
| 1996 | ReganBooks | – | 406 | OL18337860M |
| 1996 | Harper Paperbacks | – | 448 | OL7286082M |
| 1996 | Thorndike Press | Hardcover | 676 | OL8109512M |
| 1996 | HarperCollins Publishers | – | 448 | OL7602634M |
| 1996 | Thorndike Press | – | 676 | OL813440M |
| 1995 | ReganBooks | Hardcover | 406 | OL1269540M |
| 1995 | William Morrow | Hardcover | 416 | OL9231526M |
Questions
- How many pages is Wicked?
- About 460 pages: that is the median of 18 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 406 to 676 pages.
- How long does it take to read Wicked?
- About 8 h 07 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 17 days.
- How many words is Wicked?
- Roughly 127,000 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)).