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Series · by Lois Lowry

The Giver Quartet books in order

The 4 books of The Giver Quartet in series order, with the median page count of each across English print editions. The 3 books with page data add up to about 602 pages.

Books in order
4
numbered on Wikidata
Total pages
602
sum of medians, 3 books
Reading time
11h
at average speed
  1. 1
    The Giver
    1999 · 24 editions
    205 pages
    3 h 37 min
  2. 2
    Gathering Blue
    2000 · 10 editions
    224 pages
    3 h 57 min
  3. 3
    Messenger
    2004 · 6 editions
    172 pages
    3 h 02 min
  4. 4
    Son
    2012 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
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Pages per book, in series order

Median page count across English print editions.

1. The Giver2052. Gathering Blue2243. Messenger172
1. The Giver2052. Gathering Blue2243. Messenger172
Open Library edition records; order from Wikidata series numbers.

How long to read the whole series?

Based on 602 pages for the 3 books with page data.

Reading time
10 h 36 min
At 30 min a day
22 days
At 1 hour a day
11 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)).