How many pages there should be in a novel?

i think the number does not matter at all.
it is the style, the content which will be more important!!

It depends on the topic you are writing, your style and your projected audience. But for neophytes I believe it would be more advatageous on their part to write a lesser paged novel as a starter. But for Tom Clancy or Robert Ludlum, number of pages doesn't matter at all.

Well it depends on your story.If it is something related to fiction like science fiction,murder mystery it does not have any boundations.But if you are writing something philosophical,someones life or a love story then it should be around 200-250 pages.By the way i already wrote 3 novels and presently working on my fourth one.

Well my friend for me it's depends on the It depends.Some publishers, especially in genres like romance, have requirements as uniform as a muffin tin: Each manuscript will be long enough to fill a book of exactly so many pages. Others are far more flexible.

In the days of the typewriter, a double-spaced page with 1-inch margins would hold an average of 250 words. So you could assume that since 4 pages= 1000 words, 240 pages= 60,000 words, which was the typical length for most mainstream and mystery novels.Then came the personal computer and the writer's own choice of typeface and point size.

This threw the old estimate right out the window, but word processors of course give us a precise word count—and word count is what most publishers are interested in.

The number of words in a novel will vary depending on the genre. A young-adult novel will run between 20,000 and 40,000 words. That would be the length of a novella in mainstream fiction.

Many genres seem to have succumbed to super sizing. A mass-market western, mystery or SF novel used to run to 60,000-70,000 words. Now they're more likely to hit 90,000 words. Fantasy novels seem to be about 125,000 words—per volume, with some series going on and on. Mainstream fiction can be anywhere from 55,000 words (about the length of many mass-market romances) to ten times that.

And how many pages will your published book have? Again, book design and typesetting can influence the total. I've noticed a lot of hardback mainstream fiction lately with text that's really double-spaced, with generous margins: clearly the author handed in a short manuscript, and the publisher is trying to puff it up into something that looks worth the price.

Mass-market paperbacks don't seem to have changed their design much, however, and I've noticed that a typical page of a paperback novel will run around 440 words...not quite the equivalent of two double-spaced manuscript pages. My novel Eyas was just about exactly 500 pages long in manuscript, and came out in print at 354 pages.

If you're working in a genre like SF or romance, it's always a good idea to visit the websites of genre publishers to see what length they want. If you go to Harlequin and browse through their FAQs, you'll see that different romance series require much different lengths, from 50,000 words to twice that.

For you this is a craft, maybe even an art. For them, it's an assembly-line business. If you're J. K. Rowling or Stephen King, you can tell your publishers how long your next novel will be, and they will tug their corporate forelock, thank you very much, and plan accordingly.

i think at least 200 pages. if less, it will be called a novella. but it doesnt matter which yours is as long as it is a good story that people enjoy reading.

When writing, you should never, never, forget that quality is better than quantity, anybody can write a whole lot of junk, but it takes a good author to write a decent novel. Write things that you, yourself, would be happy reading. Otherwise, novels vary a lot in size, some are 30,000, some are 100,000, but it doesn't really matter.