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Series · by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Little House on the Prairie books in order

The 9 books of Little House on the Prairie in series order, with the median page count of each across English print editions. Together they run to about 2,640 pages.

Books in order
9
numbered on Wikidata
Total pages
2,640
sum of medians, 9 books
Reading time
47h
at average speed
  1. 1
    Little House in the Big Woods
    2005 · 44 editions
    218 pages
    3 h 51 min
  2. 2
    Farmer Boy
    1990 · 21 editions
    372 pages
    6 h 33 min
  3. 3
    Little House on the Prairie
    2003 · 40 editions
    334 pages
    5 h 54 min
  4. 4
    On the Banks of Plum Creek
    2003 · 19 editions
    338 pages
    5 h 58 min
  5. 5
    By the Shores of Silver Lake
    2003 · 20 editions
    290 pages
    5 h 07 min
  6. 6
    The Long Winter
    1999 · 20 editions
    334 pages
    5 h 54 min
  7. 7
    Little Town on the Prairie
    1941 · 17 editions
    304 pages
    5 h 22 min
  8. 8
    These Happy Golden Years
    1971 · 22 editions
    302 pages
    5 h 48 min
  9. 9
    The First Four Years
    1953 · 10 editions
    147 pages
    2 h 50 min

Pages per book, in series order

Median page count across English print editions.

1. Little House in the Big Woods2182. Farmer Boy3723. Little House on the Prairie3344. On the Banks of Plum Creek3385. By the Shores of Silver Lake2906. The Long Winter3347. Little Town on the Prairie3048. These Happy Golden Years3019. The First Four Years147
1. Little House in t…2182. Farmer Boy3723. Little House on t…3344. On the Banks of P…3385. By the Shores of …2906. The Long Winter3347. Little Town on th…3048. These Happy Golde…3019. The First Four Ye…147
Open Library edition records; order from Wikidata series numbers.

How long to read the whole series?

Based on 2,640 pages for the 9 books with page data.

Reading time
46 h 32 min
At 30 min a day
94 days
At 1 hour a day
47 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)).