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Skulduggery Pleasant books in order

The 10 books of Skulduggery Pleasant in series order, with the median page count of each across English print editions. The 2 books with page data add up to about 760 pages.

Books in order
10
numbered on Wikidata
Total pages
760
sum of medians, 2 books
Reading time
13h
at average speed
  1. 1
    Skulduggery Pleasant
    2006 · 9 editions
    392 pages
    6 h 55 min
  2. 2
    Playing with Fire
    5 editions
    368 pages
    6 h 29 min
  3. 3
    The Faceless Ones
    2009 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –
  4. 4
    Dark Days
    2010 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –
  5. 5
    Mortal Coil
    2010 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –
  6. 6
    Death Bringer
    2011 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –
  7. 7
    Kingdom of the Wicked
    2012 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –
  8. 8
    Last Stand of Dead Men
    too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –
  9. 9
    The Dying of the Light
    too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –
  10. 11
    Midnight
    2018 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –

Pages per book, in series order

Median page count across English print editions.

1. Skulduggery Pleasant3922. Playing with Fire368
1. Skulduggery Pleas…3922. Playing with Fire368
Open Library edition records; order from Wikidata series numbers.

How long to read the whole series?

Based on 760 pages for the 2 books with page data.

Reading time
13 h 24 min
At 30 min a day
27 days
At 1 hour a day
14 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)).