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Dirk Gently series books in order

The 3 books of Dirk Gently series in series order, with the median page count of each across English print editions. Together they run to about 887 pages.

Books in order
3
numbered on Wikidata
Total pages
887
sum of medians, 3 books
Reading time
16h
at average speed
  1. 1
    Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
    2001 · 9 editions
    306 pages
    5 h 24 min
  2. 2
    The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
    2006 · 12 editions
    282 pages
    4 h 58 min
  3. 3
    The Salmon of Doubt
    1996 · 6 editions
    299 pages
    5 h 16 min

Pages per book, in series order

Median page count across English print editions.

1. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency3062. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul2823. The Salmon of Doubt299
1. Dirk Gently's Hol…3062. The Long Dark Tea…2823. The Salmon of Dou…299
Open Library edition records; order from Wikidata series numbers.

How long to read the whole series?

Based on 887 pages for the 3 books with page data.

Reading time
15 h 38 min
At 30 min a day
32 days
At 1 hour a day
16 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)).