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Monster by the numbers

Walter Dean Myers · first published 1999 · dataset 2026-07-21

Length and reading time

At 281 pages, Monster is longer than 70.8% of the 1,664 books on the reading lists we track. It is longer than the median book listed for grades 9-12 (274 pages).

Word counts and reading times are estimates: pages × 275 words, divided by the reading speed. Your edition's page count and your own pace will differ.

Where Monster is on school reading lists

3 appearances (0.0% of all 13,258 listings in the dataset), drawn from 3 published lists, in grades 8th–9th. 3 of the 3 carry a link to the published source document.

States (2): Illinois, New York.

Sources

• Illinois Learning Standards grade 8 aligned reading · checked 2026-05-29
• NY Next Gen Learning Standards grade 9 aligned reading · checked 2026-05-29
• CCSS ELA Appendix B, grades 9-10 exemplar · checked 2026-05-29

Questions

How many pages is Monster?

Monster by Walter Dean Myers is 281 pages in the edition recorded in our dataset. Page counts vary by edition and format; at about 275 words per page that is roughly 77,000 words.

How long does it take to read Monster?

About 5 h 9 min at an average adult pace of 250 words per minute (4 h 18 min at 300 wpm, 6 h 26 min at 200 wpm). At 20 minutes a day that is about 16 days.

Is Monster on school reading lists?

Yes. It appears 3 times on the U.S. school reading lists, award lists and curricula in our dataset, in 2 states plus 1 national-curriculum listing, most often in grades 9-12. That ranks it #1,511 of 1,664 listed books.

Related

• Monster: reading level, grades and similar booksOn ReadingList, our sister site for school reading lists.
• Books of about the same lengthTo Kill a Mockingbird (281 pp.) · The Diary of a Young Girl (283 pp.) · Odder (288 pp.) · The Wild Robot (288 pp.)
• The most assigned books, rankedAll 1,664 listed books start here.
• Book length statisticsHow long assigned books are, by grade.

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