How long does it take to read The Chronicles of Narnia: Including an Essay on Writing?
by C.S. Lewis
14h 16m
213,950 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 4 weeks.
That is 29 sessions with The Chronicles of Narnia: Including an Essay on Writing.
45 minutes a day would finish it in about 3 weeks.
How we worked this out
The Chronicles of Narnia: Including an Essay on Writing is about 213,950 words, estimated from its 778 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 14 hours 16 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 Chronicles of Narnia: Including an Essay on Writing, we will replace this estimate with the time they actually took.
The Chronicles of Narnia: Including an Essay on Writing at a glance
- Pages
- 778
- Author
- C.S. Lewis
- Series
- The Chronicles of Narnia (Chronological Order)
- Genre
- fantasy, paranormal
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