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The Mortal Instruments books in order

The 5 books of The Mortal Instruments in series order, with the median page count of each across English print editions. The 2 books with page data add up to about 930 pages.

Books in order
5
numbered on Wikidata
Total pages
930
sum of medians, 2 books
Reading time
16h
at average speed
  1. 1
    City of Bones
    5 editions
    496 pages
    8 h 45 min
  2. 2
    City of Ashes
    2008 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –
  3. 3
    City of Glass
    2009 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –
  4. 4
    City of Fallen Angels
    5 editions
    434 pages
    7 h 39 min
  5. 5
    City of Lost Souls
    2012 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –

Pages per book, in series order

Median page count across English print editions.

1. City of Bones4964. City of Fallen Angels434
1. City of Bones4964. City of Fallen An…434
Open Library edition records; order from Wikidata series numbers.

How long to read the whole series?

Based on 930 pages for the 2 books with page data.

Reading time
16 h 24 min
At 30 min a day
33 days
At 1 hour a day
17 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)).