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The Dark Tower books in order

The 8 books of The Dark Tower in series order, with the median page count of each across English print editions. Together they run to about 4,252 pages.

Books in order
8
numbered on Wikidata
Total pages
4,252
sum of medians, 8 books
Reading time
75h
at average speed
  1. 1
    The Gunslinger
    1976 · 26 editions
    244 pages
    4 h 18 min
  2. 2
    The Drawing of the Three
    1987 · 19 editions
    455 pages
    8 h 01 min
  3. 3
    The Waste Lands
    1991 · 15 editions
    512 pages
    9 h 02 min
  4. 4
    Wizard and Glass
    1997 · 16 editions
    699 pages
    12 h 19 min
  5. 5
    Wolves of the Calla
    2003 · 8 editions
    714 pages
    12 h 35 min
  6. 6
    Song of Susannah
    2004 · 6 editions
    422 pages
    7 h 26 min
  7. 7
    The Dark Tower
    2004 · 7 editions
    863 pages
    15 h 13 min
  8. 8
    The Wind Through the Keyhole
    8 editions
    344 pages
    6 h 03 min

Pages per book, in series order

Median page count across English print editions.

1. The Gunslinger2432. The Drawing of the Three4553. The Waste Lands5124. Wizard and Glass6995. Wolves of the Calla7146. Song of Susannah4217. The Dark Tower8638. The Wind Through the Keyhole343
1. The Gunslinger2432. The Drawing of th…4553. The Waste Lands5124. Wizard and Glass6995. Wolves of the Cal…7146. Song of Susannah4217. The Dark Tower8638. The Wind Through …343
Open Library edition records; order from Wikidata series numbers.

How long to read the whole series?

Based on 4,252 pages for the 8 books with page data.

Reading time
74 h 57 min
At 30 min a day
150 days
At 1 hour a day
75 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)).