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Series · by Susan Cooper

The Dark Is Rising Sequence books in order

The 5 books of The Dark Is Rising Sequence in series order, with the median page count of each across English print editions. The 2 books with page data add up to about 496 pages.

Books in order
5
numbered on Wikidata
Total pages
496
sum of medians, 2 books
Reading time
8.7h
at average speed
  1. 1
    Over Sea, Under Stone
    1988 · 18 editions
    252 pages
    4 h 27 min
  2. 2
    The Dark Is Rising
    2002 · 30 editions
    244 pages
    4 h 18 min
  3. 3
    Greenwitch
    1974 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –
  4. 4
    The Grey King
    1975 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –
  5. 5
    Silver on the Tree
    1977 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –

Pages per book, in series order

Median page count across English print editions.

1. Over Sea, Under Stone2522. The Dark Is Rising244
1. Over Sea, Under S…2522. The Dark Is Rising244
Open Library edition records; order from Wikidata series numbers.

How long to read the whole series?

Based on 496 pages for the 2 books with page data.

Reading time
8 h 45 min
At 30 min a day
18 days
At 1 hour a day
9 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)).