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Ankh-Morpork City Watch series books in order

The 8 books of Ankh-Morpork City Watch series in series order, with the median page count of each across English print editions. Together they run to about 3,301 pages.

Books in order
8
numbered on Wikidata
Total pages
3,301
sum of medians, 8 books
Reading time
58h
at average speed
  1. 1
    Guards! Guards!
    15 editions
    355 pages
    6 h 15 min
  2. 3
    Men at Arms
    9 editions
    352 pages
    6 h 12 min
  3. 4
    Feet of Clay
    8 editions
    388 pages
    6 h 50 min
  4. 5
    Jingo
    7 editions
    416 pages
    7 h 20 min
  5. 6
    The Fifth Elephant
    8 editions
    462 pages
    8 h 09 min
  6. 7
    Night Watch
    5 editions
    400 pages
    7 h 03 min
  7. 8
    Thud!
    10 editions
    416 pages
    7 h 20 min
  8. 9
    Snuff
    7 editions
    512 pages
    9 h 02 min

Pages per book, in series order

Median page count across English print editions.

1. Guards! Guards!3553. Men at Arms3524. Feet of Clay3885. Jingo4166. The Fifth Elephant4627. Night Watch4008. Thud!4169. Snuff512
1. Guards! Guards!3553. Men at Arms3524. Feet of Clay3885. Jingo4166. The Fifth Elephant4627. Night Watch4008. Thud!4169. Snuff512
Open Library edition records; order from Wikidata series numbers.

How long to read the whole series?

Based on 3,301 pages for the 8 books with page data.

Reading time
58 h 11 min
At 30 min a day
117 days
At 1 hour a day
59 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)).