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Series · by Iain Banks

Culture series books in order

The 10 books of Culture series in series order, with the median page count of each across English print editions. The 5 books with page data add up to about 1,906 pages.

Books in order
10
numbered on Wikidata
Total pages
1,906
sum of medians, 5 books
Reading time
34h
at average speed
  1. 1
    Consider Phlebas
    10 editions
    471 pages
    8 h 18 min
  2. 2
    The Player of Games
    8 editions
    314 pages
    5 h 33 min
  3. 3
    Use of Weapons
    7 editions
    400 pages
    7 h 03 min
  4. 4
    The State of the Art
    1989 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –
  5. 5
    Excession
    1996 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –
  6. 6
    Inversions
    5 editions
    352 pages
    6 h 12 min
  7. 7
    Look to Windward
    8 editions
    369 pages
    6 h 30 min
  8. 8
    Matter
    2008 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –
  9. 9
    Surface Detail
    2010 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –
  10. 10
    The Hydrogen Sonata
    2012 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –

Pages per book, in series order

Median page count across English print editions.

1. Consider Phlebas4712. The Player of Games3143. Use of Weapons4006. Inversions3527. Look to Windward369
1. Consider Phlebas4712. The Player of Gam…3143. Use of Weapons4006. Inversions3527. Look to Windward369
Open Library edition records; order from Wikidata series numbers.

How long to read the whole series?

Based on 1,906 pages for the 5 books with page data.

Reading time
33 h 36 min
At 30 min a day
68 days
At 1 hour a day
34 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)).