Cover of The American Roommate Experiment
Reading time

How long does it take to read The American Roommate Experiment?

by Elena Armas

Checked July 2026

At an average pace

7h 31m

112,750 words at 250 a minute

At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 2 weeks.

That is 15 sessions with The American Roommate Experiment.

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45 minutes a day would finish it in about 11 days.

How many words is The American Roommate Experiment?

The American Roommate Experiment is about 112,750 words, estimated from its 410 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 7 hours 31 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 The American Roommate Experiment, we will replace this estimate with the time they actually took.

How many pages is The American Roommate Experiment?

Pages
410
Author
Elena Armas
Series
Love Deception, book 2
Genre
romance

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