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Series · by Isaac Asimov

Foundation series books in order

The 7 books of Foundation series in series order, with the median page count of each across English print editions. Together they run to about 2,482 pages.

Books in order
7
numbered on Wikidata
Total pages
2,482
sum of medians, 7 books
Reading time
44h
at average speed
  1. 1
    Prelude to Foundation
    11 editions
    448 pages
    7 h 54 min
  2. 2
    Forward the Foundation
    7 editions
    432 pages
    7 h 37 min
  3. 3
    Foundation
    27 editions
    227 pages
    4 h
  4. 4
    Foundation and Empire
    19 editions
    230 pages
    4 h 03 min
  5. 5
    Second Foundation
    21 editions
    225 pages
    3 h 58 min
  6. 6
    Foundation's Edge
    13 editions
    426 pages
    7 h 31 min
  7. 7
    Foundation and Earth
    7 editions
    494 pages
    8 h 42 min

Pages per book, in series order

Median page count across English print editions.

1. Prelude to Foundation4482. Forward the Foundation4323. Foundation2274. Foundation and Empire2305. Second Foundation2256. Foundation's Edge4267. Foundation and Earth494
1. Prelude to Founda…4482. Forward the Found…4323. Foundation2274. Foundation and Em…2305. Second Foundation2256. Foundation's Edge4267. Foundation and Ea…494
Open Library edition records; order from Wikidata series numbers.

How long to read the whole series?

Based on 2,482 pages for the 7 books with page data.

Reading time
43 h 45 min
At 30 min a day
88 days
At 1 hour a day
44 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)).