If you’ve wondered whether it’s a trick of your own increasingly wise perception or whether fantasy adventure novels are getting longer, then, well, it’s not just you.
Fantasy books are getting longer, although it turns out to be a contested conclusion. Previous studies have suggested shorter.
One study from 2015 suggested books are 25% longer than in 1999. However, the New York Times investigated and found that bestsellers are shorter. The two, of course, can be true.
As a marketing, notice me, exercise LetterSolver grabbed data from GoodReads and confirmed that between 2014 and 2023, fiction books have been getting larger, with 46 more pages. However, the same is not true for non-fiction.
Fantasy books are longer, but not sci-fi. Bestselling fiction books are larger, but non-fiction hits have never been shorter.
The page count of fantasy books
The page count of sci-fi books
The page count of books by genre
If you want a summary graphic, as I often do, Letter Solver has made one, too. We don’t track over time here, but we can see the range different genres tend to fall in.
We can see the change. Humour has grown the most, in terms of pages between the covers, and history has reduced by the most significant amount.
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