How long does it take to read And Then There Were None?
by Agatha Christie
4h 50m
72,600 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 10 days.
That is 10 sessions with And Then There Were None.
45 minutes a day would finish it in about 7 days.
How we worked this out
And Then There Were None is about 72,600 words, estimated from its 264 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 4 hours 50 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 And Then There Were None, we will replace this estimate with the time they actually took.
And Then There Were None at a glance
- Pages
- 264
- Author
- Agatha Christie
- Genre
- mystery, thriller, crime
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