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Lilith's Brood books in order

The 3 books of Lilith's Brood in series order, with the median page count of each across English print editions. The 2 books with page data add up to about 544 pages.

Books in order
3
numbered on Wikidata
Total pages
544
sum of medians, 2 books
Reading time
9.6h
at average speed
  1. 1
    Dawn
    1987 · 7 editions
    256 pages
    4 h 31 min
  2. 2
    Adulthood Rites
    1988 · 7 editions
    288 pages
    5 h 05 min
  3. 3
    Imago
    1989 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
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Pages per book, in series order

Median page count across English print editions.

1. Dawn2562. Adulthood Rites288
1. Dawn2562. Adulthood Rites288
Open Library edition records; order from Wikidata series numbers.

How long to read the whole series?

Based on 544 pages for the 2 books with page data.

Reading time
9 h 35 min
At 30 min a day
20 days
At 1 hour a day
10 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)).