
How long does it take to read The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest?
by Stieg Larsson
13h 41m
205,150 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 4 weeks.
That is 27 sessions with The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest.
Read it with the Guild45 minutes a day would finish it in about 3 weeks.
This estimate uses a representative 746-page edition. Page counts can differ between editions, formats, and printings.
How many words is The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest?
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest is about 205,150 words, estimated from its 746 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 13 hours 41 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 The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest?
- Catalog page count
- 746
- Edition ISBN
- 9781849162746
- Author
- Stieg Larsson
- Series
- Millennium, book 3
- Genre
- mystery, thriller, crime
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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