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Neapolitan Novels books in order

The 4 books of Neapolitan Novels in series order, with the median page count of each across English print editions. The 2 books with page data add up to about 812 pages.

Books in order
4
numbered on Wikidata
Total pages
812
sum of medians, 2 books
Reading time
14h
at average speed
  1. 1
    My Brilliant Friend
    9 editions
    336 pages
    5 h 55 min
  2. 2
    Story of a New Name
    6 editions
    476 pages
    8 h 23 min
  3. 3
    Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
    2013 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –
  4. 4
    The Story of the Lost Child
    2014 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –

Pages per book, in series order

Median page count across English print editions.

1. My Brilliant Friend3362. Story of a New Name475
1. My Brilliant Frie…3362. Story of a New Na…475
Open Library edition records; order from Wikidata series numbers.

How long to read the whole series?

Based on 812 pages for the 2 books with page data.

Reading time
14 h 18 min
At 30 min a day
29 days
At 1 hour a day
15 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)).