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Foundation Trilogy books in order

The 3 books of Foundation Trilogy in series order, with the median page count of each across English print editions. Together they run to about 682 pages.

Books in order
3
numbered on Wikidata
Total pages
682
sum of medians, 3 books
Reading time
12h
at average speed
  1. 1
    Foundation
    27 editions
    227 pages
    4 h
  2. 2
    Foundation and Empire
    19 editions
    230 pages
    4 h 03 min
  3. 3
    Second Foundation
    21 editions
    225 pages
    3 h 58 min

Pages per book, in series order

Median page count across English print editions.

1. Foundation2272. Foundation and Empire2303. Second Foundation225
1. Foundation2272. Foundation and Em…2303. Second Foundation225
Open Library edition records; order from Wikidata series numbers.

How long to read the whole series?

Based on 682 pages for the 3 books with page data.

Reading time
12 h 01 min
At 30 min a day
25 days
At 1 hour a day
13 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)).