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Series · by Philip Pullman

His Dark Materials books in order

The 3 books of His Dark Materials in series order, with the median page count of each across English print editions. Together they run to about 1,295 pages.

Books in order
3
numbered on Wikidata
Total pages
1,295
sum of medians, 3 books
Reading time
23h
at average speed
  1. 1
    Northern Lights
    1999 · 26 editions
    399 pages
    7 h 02 min
  2. 2
    The Subtle Knife
    2002 · 25 editions
    352 pages
    6 h 12 min
  3. 3
    The Amber Spyglass
    2000 · 17 editions
    544 pages
    9 h 35 min

Pages per book, in series order

Median page count across English print editions.

1. Northern Lights3992. The Subtle Knife3523. The Amber Spyglass544
1. Northern Lights3992. The Subtle Knife3523. The Amber Spyglass544
Open Library edition records; order from Wikidata series numbers.

How long to read the whole series?

Based on 1,295 pages for the 3 books with page data.

Reading time
22 h 50 min
At 30 min a day
46 days
At 1 hour a day
23 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)).