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Earthsea series books in order

The 5 books of Earthsea series in series order, with the median page count of each across English print editions. The 4 books with page data add up to about 888 pages.

Books in order
5
numbered on Wikidata
Total pages
888
sum of medians, 4 books
Reading time
16h
at average speed
  1. 1
    A Wizard of Earthsea
    19 editions
    197 pages
    3 h 28 min
  2. 2
    The Tombs of Atuan
    19 editions
    160 pages
    2 h 49 min
  3. 3
    The Farthest Shore
    21 editions
    214 pages
    3 h 46 min
  4. 4
    Tales from Earthsea
    6 editions
    317 pages
    5 h 35 min
  5. 5
    The Other Wind
    2001 · 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. A Wizard of Earthsea1972. The Tombs of Atuan1603. The Farthest Shore2144. Tales from Earthsea317
1. A Wizard of Earth…1972. The Tombs of Atuan1603. The Farthest Shore2144. Tales from Earths…317
Open Library edition records; order from Wikidata series numbers.

How long to read the whole series?

Based on 888 pages for the 4 books with page data.

Reading time
15 h 39 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)).