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A Series of Unfortunate Events books in order

The 9 books of A Series of Unfortunate Events in series order, with the median page count of each across English print editions. The 6 books with page data add up to about 1,240 pages.

Books in order
9
numbered on Wikidata
Total pages
1,240
sum of medians, 6 books
Reading time
22h
at average speed
  1. 1
    The Bad Beginning
    16 editions
    165 pages
    2 h 55 min
  2. 2
    The Reptile Room
    16 editions
    192 pages
    3 h 23 min
  3. 3
    The Wide Window
    14 editions
    214 pages
    3 h 46 min
  4. 4
    The Miserable Mill
    8 editions
    194 pages
    3 h 25 min
  5. 5
    The Austere Academy
    9 editions
    221 pages
    3 h 54 min
  6. 8
    The Hostile Hospital
    6 editions
    255 pages
    4 h 30 min
  7. 10
    The Slippery Slope
    2003 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –
  8. 12
    The Penultimate Peril
    2005 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –
  9. 13
    The End
    2006 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –

Pages per book, in series order

Median page count across English print editions.

1. The Bad Beginning1652. The Reptile Room1913. The Wide Window2144. The Miserable Mill1945. The Austere Academy2218. The Hostile Hospital255
1. The Bad Beginning1652. The Reptile Room1913. The Wide Window2144. The Miserable Mill1945. The Austere Acade…2218. The Hostile Hospi…255
Open Library edition records; order from Wikidata series numbers.

How long to read the whole series?

Based on 1,240 pages for the 6 books with page data.

Reading time
21 h 52 min
At 30 min a day
44 days
At 1 hour a day
22 days
Order follows the series number recorded on Wikidata. Novellas numbered with decimals (for example 2.5) sit between the main books.

Data: Wikidata: part of the series (P179) and series ordinal (Wikimedia Foundation / Wikidata contributors); 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)).