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Series · by Ursula K. Le Guin

Hainish Cycle books in order

The 7 books of Hainish Cycle in series order, with the median page count of each across English print editions. The 3 books with page data add up to about 784 pages.

Books in order
7
numbered on Wikidata
Total pages
784
sum of medians, 3 books
Reading time
14h
at average speed
  1. 1
    Rocannon's World
    1966 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –
  2. 2
    Planet of Exile
    1966 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –
  3. 3
    City of Illusions
    1967 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –
  4. 4
    The Left Hand of Darkness
    21 editions
    288 pages
    5 h 05 min
  5. 5
    The Dispossessed
    1974 · 16 editions
    328 pages
    5 h 46 min
  6. 6
    The Word for World is Forest
    9 editions
    169 pages
    2 h 59 min
  7. 8
    The Telling
    2000 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –

Pages per book, in series order

Median page count across English print editions.

4. The Left Hand of Darkness2885. The Dispossessed3276. The Word for World is Forest169
4. The Left Hand of …2885. The Dispossessed3276. The Word for Worl…169
Open Library edition records; order from Wikidata series numbers.

How long to read the whole series?

Based on 784 pages for the 3 books with page data.

Reading time
13 h 50 min
At 30 min a day
28 days
At 1 hour a day
14 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)).