How long does it take to read a book?

Reading time depends on a book's length and your pace. The average adult reads silently at about 238 words a minute for non-fiction and 260 for fiction, based on Brysbaert's 2019 meta-analysis of 190 studies. Pick a book to see how long it takes at your speed, and how it breaks into reading sessions.

How long to read a set number of pages

• 10 pages11m
• 20 pages22m
• 30 pages33m
• 40 pages44m
• 50 pages55m
• 60 pages1h 6m
• 80 pages1h 28m
• 100 pages1h 50m
• 150 pages2h 45m
• 200 pages3h 40m
• 300 pages5h 30m
• 400 pages7h 20m
• 500 pages9h 10m

Most looked up

• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
• Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
• The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
• The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
• The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
• Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
• Divergent by Veronica Roth
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• The Housemaid's Secret by Freida McFadden
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

Every book, A to Z

All 304 books we have reading times for. Titles are filed under their first real word, so The Hobbit sits under H.