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Shadow hexalogy books in order

The 4 books of Shadow hexalogy in series order, with the median page count of each across English print editions. Together they run to about 1,504 pages.

Books in order
4
numbered on Wikidata
Total pages
1,504
sum of medians, 4 books
Reading time
27h
at average speed
  1. 1
    Ender's Shadow
    9 editions
    384 pages
    6 h 46 min
  2. 2
    Shadow of the Hegemon
    7 editions
    384 pages
    6 h 46 min
  3. 3
    Shadow Puppets
    5 editions
    352 pages
    6 h 12 min
  4. 4
    Shadow of the Giant
    6 editions
    384 pages
    6 h 46 min

Pages per book, in series order

Median page count across English print editions.

1. Ender's Shadow3842. Shadow of the Hegemon3843. Shadow Puppets3524. Shadow of the Giant384
1. Ender's Shadow3842. Shadow of the Heg…3843. Shadow Puppets3524. Shadow of the Gia…384
Open Library edition records; order from Wikidata series numbers.

How long to read the whole series?

Based on 1,504 pages for the 4 books with page data.

Reading time
26 h 31 min
At 30 min a day
54 days
At 1 hour a day
27 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)).