Love Books Daily

Series · by Albert Camus

The strange writer books in order

The 4 books of The strange writer in series order, with the median page count of each across English print editions. The 2 books with page data add up to about 296 pages.

Books in order
4
numbered on Wikidata
Total pages
296
sum of medians, 2 books
Reading time
5.2h
at average speed
  1. 1
    L’étranger
    1998 · 89 editions
    127 pages
    2 h 14 min
  2. 2
    The myth of Sisyphus
    2000 · 6 editions
    169 pages
    2 h 59 min
  3. 3
    Caligula
    1944 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –
  4. 4
    The Misunderstanding
    1944 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –

Pages per book, in series order

Median page count across English print editions.

1. L’étranger1272. The myth of Sisyphus169
1. L’étranger1272. The myth of Sisyp…169
Open Library edition records; order from Wikidata series numbers.

How long to read the whole series?

Based on 296 pages for the 2 books with page data.

Reading time
5 h 13 min
At 30 min a day
11 days
At 1 hour a day
6 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)).