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Dune books in order

The 6 books of Dune in series order, with the median page count of each across English print editions. Together they run to about 2,604 pages.

Books in order
6
numbered on Wikidata
Total pages
2,604
sum of medians, 6 books
Reading time
46h
at average speed
  1. 1
    Dune
    29 editions
    535 pages
    9 h 26 min
  2. 2
    Dune Messiah
    22 editions
    256 pages
    4 h 31 min
  3. 3
    Children of Dune
    11 editions
    432 pages
    7 h 37 min
  4. 4
    God Emperor of Dune
    9 editions
    423 pages
    7 h 27 min
  5. 5
    Heretics of Dune
    6 editions
    494 pages
    8 h 42 min
  6. 6
    Chapterhouse Dune
    5 editions
    464 pages
    8 h 11 min

Pages per book, in series order

Median page count across English print editions.

1. Dune5352. Dune Messiah2563. Children of Dune4324. God Emperor of Dune4235. Heretics of Dune4946. Chapterhouse Dune464
1. Dune5352. Dune Messiah2563. Children of Dune4324. God Emperor of Du…4235. Heretics of Dune4946. Chapterhouse Dune464
Open Library edition records; order from Wikidata series numbers.

How long to read the whole series?

Based on 2,604 pages for the 6 books with page data.

Reading time
45 h 54 min
At 30 min a day
92 days
At 1 hour a day
46 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)).