Reading time

How long does it take to read Carrie Soto Is Back?

by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Checked July 2026

At an average pace

7h 2m

105,600 words at 250 a minute

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

That is 14 sessions with Carrie Soto Is Back.

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45 minutes a day would finish it in about 10 days.

How many words is Carrie Soto Is Back?

Carrie Soto Is Back is about 105,600 words, estimated from its 384 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 7 hours 2 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 Carrie Soto Is Back, we will replace this estimate with the time they actually took.

How many pages is Carrie Soto Is Back?

Pages
384
Author
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Genre
fiction

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