How long does it take to read Fourth Wing?
by Rebecca Yarros
9h 29m
142,175 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 3 weeks.
That is 19 sessions with Fourth Wing.
45 minutes a day would finish it in about 13 days.
How we worked this out
Fourth Wing is about 142,175 words, estimated from its 517 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 9 hours 29 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 Fourth Wing, we will replace this estimate with the time they actually took.
Fourth Wing at a glance
- Pages
- 517
- Author
- Rebecca Yarros
- Series
- The Empyrean, book 1
- Genre
- Fantasy
Knowing the number is the easy part.
The hours are the hard part, and they are easier with company. ReadersGuild is where people read Fourth Wing alongside each other, one session at a time.
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