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How many pages is Wizard's First Rule?

Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind has a median of 692 pages across 10 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 577 to 794 pages.

Median pages
692
10 editions counted
Range
573–848
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
12h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
190k
at 275 words per page
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How long will Wizard's First Rule 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
12 h 12 min
At 30 min a day
25 days
At 1 hour a day
13 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

600700800199520002005201020151994: 573 pages1994: 576 pages1994: 611 pages1994: 579 pages1995: 820 pages1995: 774 pages2001: 576 pages2003: 848 pages2008: 798 pages2015: 784 pagesmedian 692
600700800200020101994: 573 pages1994: 576 pages1994: 611 pages1994: 579 pages1995: 820 pages1995: 774 pages2001: 576 pages2003: 848 pages2008: 798 pages2015: 784 pagesmedian 692
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 10 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 51 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2015Head of Zeus–784OL29276406M
2008Tor Bookspaperback798OL27314578M
2003Tor BooksPaperback848OL8053997M
2001Tor BooksPaperback576OL8053282M
1995TORMass Market Paperback820OL24224275M
1995Millennium–774OL22133988M
1994TORHardcover573OL1088853M
1994Millennium–576OL17306333M

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Questions

How many pages is Wizard's First Rule?
About 692 pages: that is the median of 10 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 573 to 848 pages.
How long does it take to read Wizard's First Rule?
About 12 h 12 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 25 days.
How many words is Wizard's First Rule?
Roughly 190,000 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).