Cover of City of Bones
Reading time

How long does it take to read City of Bones?

by Cassandra Clare

At an average pace

8h 54m

133,375 words at 250 a minute

At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 3 weeks.

That is 18 sessions with City of Bones.

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45 minutes a day would finish it in about 12 days.

This estimate uses a representative 485-page edition. Page counts can differ between editions, formats, and printings.

How many words is City of Bones?

City of Bones is about 133,375 words, estimated from its 485 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 8 hours 54 minutes.

We use 250 words a minute, not the 300 most calculators assume. A 2019 meta-analysis of 190 studies puts silent adult reading nearer 238 for non-fiction and 260 for fiction.

How many pages is City of Bones?

Catalog page count
485
Edition ISBN
9781416914280
Author
Cassandra Clare
Series
The Mortal Instruments, book 1
Genre
young-adult

These details come from the ReadersGuild catalog. Look up this edition on Google Books. The word count is estimated from pages, not counted from the text. Introductions, notes, and layout can affect the estimate.

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