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Series · by C. S. Lewis

The Space Trilogy books in order

The 3 books of The Space Trilogy in series order, with the median page count of each across English print editions. Together they run to about 778 pages.

Books in order
3
numbered on Wikidata
Total pages
778
sum of medians, 3 books
Reading time
14h
at average speed
  1. 1
    Out of the Silent Planet
    34 editions
    174 pages
    3 h 04 min
  2. 2
    Perelandra
    19 editions
    222 pages
    3 h 55 min
  3. 3
    That Hideous Strength
    1987 · 23 editions
    382 pages
    6 h 44 min

Pages per book, in series order

Median page count across English print editions.

1. Out of the Silent Planet1742. Perelandra2223. That Hideous Strength382
1. Out of the Silent…1742. Perelandra2223. That Hideous Stre…382
Open Library edition records; order from Wikidata series numbers.

How long to read the whole series?

Based on 778 pages for the 3 books with page data.

Reading time
13 h 43 min
At 30 min a day
28 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)).