How long does it take to read A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire #1)?
by George R.R. Martin
14h 18m
214,500 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 4 weeks.
That is 29 sessions with A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire #1).
45 minutes a day would finish it in about 3 weeks.
How we worked this out
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire #1) is about 214,500 words, estimated from its 780 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 14 hours 18 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 Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire #1), we will replace this estimate with the time they actually took.
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire #1) at a glance
- Pages
- 780
- Author
- George R.R. Martin
- Series
- A Song of Ice and Fire, book 1
- Genre
- fantasy, paranormal
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