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Earth's Children hexalogy books in order

The 6 books of Earth's Children hexalogy in series order, with the median page count of each across English print editions. The 5 books with page data add up to about 3,410 pages.

Books in order
6
numbered on Wikidata
Total pages
3,410
sum of medians, 5 books
Reading time
60h
at average speed
  1. 1
    The Clan of the Cave Bear
    2000 · 25 editions
    497 pages
    8 h 46 min
  2. 2
    The Valley of Horses
    2002 · 18 editions
    580 pages
    10 h 13 min
  3. 3
    The Mammoth Hunters
    2002 · 28 editions
    690 pages
    12 h 10 min
  4. 4
    The Plains of Passage
    2003 · 14 editions
    860 pages
    15 h 10 min
  5. 5
    The Shelters of Stone
    2002 · 14 editions
    784 pages
    13 h 49 min
  6. 6
    The Land of Painted Caves
    2011 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
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Pages per book, in series order

Median page count across English print editions.

1. The Clan of the Cave Bear4972. The Valley of Horses5793. The Mammoth Hunters6904. The Plains of Passage8605. The Shelters of Stone784
1. The Clan of the C…4972. The Valley of Hor…5793. The Mammoth Hunte…6904. The Plains of Pas…8605. The Shelters of S…784
Open Library edition records; order from Wikidata series numbers.

How long to read the whole series?

Based on 3,410 pages for the 5 books with page data.

Reading time
60 h 07 min
At 30 min a day
121 days
At 1 hour a day
61 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)).