How long does it take to read A Court of Thorns and Roses?
by Sarah J. Maas
7h 38m
114,400 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 2 weeks.
That is 15 sessions with A Court of Thorns and Roses.
45 minutes a day would finish it in about 11 days.
How we worked this out
A Court of Thorns and Roses is about 114,400 words, estimated from its 416 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 7 hours 38 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 A Court of Thorns and Roses, we will replace this estimate with the time they actually took.
A Court of Thorns and Roses at a glance
- Pages
- 416
- Author
- Sarah J. Maas
- Series
- A Court of Thorns and Roses, book 1
- Genre
- fantasy, paranormal
Knowing the number is the easy part.
The hours are the hard part, and they are easier with company. ReadersGuild is where people read A Court of Thorns and Roses alongside each other, one session at a time.
See who is reading right now