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George Smiley series books in order

The 8 books of George Smiley series in series order, with the median page count of each across English print editions. The 2 books with page data add up to about 609 pages.

Books in order
8
numbered on Wikidata
Total pages
609
sum of medians, 2 books
Reading time
11h
at average speed
  1. 1
    Call for the Dead
    1961 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –
  2. 2
    A Murder of Quality
    1962 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –
  3. 3
    The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
    1963 · 32 editions
    240 pages
    4 h 14 min
  4. 4
    The Looking Glass War
    1969 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –
  5. 5
    Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
    12 editions
    369 pages
    6 h 30 min
  6. 6
    The Honourable Schoolboy
    1977 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –
  7. 7
    Smiley's People
    1979 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –
  8. 8
    The Secret Pilgrim
    1990 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –

Pages per book, in series order

Median page count across English print editions.

3. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold2405. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy369
3. The Spy Who Came …2405. Tinker Tailor Sol…369
Open Library edition records; order from Wikidata series numbers.

How long to read the whole series?

Based on 609 pages for the 2 books with page data.

Reading time
10 h 44 min
At 30 min a day
22 days
At 1 hour a day
11 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)).