How long does it take to read 1Q84?
by Haruki Murakami
16h 58m
254,375 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 5 weeks.
That is 34 sessions with 1Q84.
45 minutes a day would finish it in about 3 weeks.
How we worked this out
1Q84 is about 254,375 words, estimated from its 925 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 16 hours 58 minutes.
Most reading-time sites default to 300 words a minute. The best evidence we could find, a 2019 meta-analysis of 190 studies by Marc Brysbaert, puts silent adult reading of English prose closer to 238 words a minute for non-fiction and 260 for fiction. We use 250. It is slower than the number you will see elsewhere, and it is closer to how people actually read.
This is still a model, not a measurement. When enough ReadersGuild readers have finished 1Q84, we will replace this estimate with the time they actually took.
1Q84 at a glance
- Pages
- 925
- Author
- Haruki Murakami
- Series
- 1Q84
- Genre
- fiction
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