Louisa May Alcott

How many words is Jo's Boys?

Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott has 98,022 words.

98,022words

Pages
336paperback, Little, Brown Young Readers, 1994
Reading time
6 h 32 minat 250 words a minute
Listening time
10 h 32 minaudiobook pace, 155 words a minute
First published
1886

Book 3 of 3 in Little Women

  1. 1Little Women183,833
  2. 2Little Men105,312
  3. 3Jo's Boys98,022

All of Little Women: 387,167 words

Compared with other books

Longer than 46% of the other 366 books here.

Counted from the text

Musael counted the Project Gutenberg text of this book. It can include a preface or notes, so the total can differ a little from the figure above.

Words in the text
100,560
Chapters
22about 4,571 words each
Average sentence
27.8 words
Vocabulary
470 different words in every 1,000higher means a more varied vocabulary

Read it free on Project Gutenberg

Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below. Sources give 98,022 to 100,255 words.

Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition.

Questions

How many words is Jo's Boys?

Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott has 98,022 words.

How many pages is Jo's Boys?

336 pages in the paperback, Little, Brown Young Readers, 1994 edition. Other editions have more or fewer pages for the same text.

How long does it take to read Jo's Boys?

About 6 h 32 min at 250 words a minute, or 10 h 32 min as an audiobook.

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