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Time Quintet books in order

The 5 books of Time Quintet in series order, with the median page count of each across English print editions. The 4 books with page data add up to about 1,008 pages.

Books in order
5
numbered on Wikidata
Total pages
1,008
sum of medians, 4 books
Reading time
18h
at average speed
  1. 1
    A Wrinkle in Time
    31 editions
    212 pages
    3 h 44 min
  2. 2
    A Wind in the Door
    10 editions
    211 pages
    3 h 43 min
  3. 3
    A Swiftly Tilting Planet
    10 editions
    275 pages
    4 h 51 min
  4. 4
    Many Waters
    11 editions
    310 pages
    5 h 28 min
  5. 5
    An Acceptable Time
    1989 · 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. A Wrinkle in Time2122. A Wind in the Door2113. A Swiftly Tilting Planet2754. Many Waters310
1. A Wrinkle in Time2122. A Wind in the Door2113. A Swiftly Tilting…2754. Many Waters310
Open Library edition records; order from Wikidata series numbers.

How long to read the whole series?

Based on 1,008 pages for the 4 books with page data.

Reading time
17 h 46 min
At 30 min a day
36 days
At 1 hour a day
18 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)).