How long does it take to read Gone Girl?
by Gillian Flynn
7h 37m
114,125 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 2 weeks.
That is 15 sessions with Gone Girl.
45 minutes a day would finish it in about 11 days.
How we worked this out
Gone Girl is about 114,125 words, estimated from its 415 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 7 hours 37 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 Gone Girl, we will replace this estimate with the time they actually took.
Gone Girl at a glance
- Pages
- 415
- Author
- Gillian Flynn
- Genre
- mystery, thriller, crime
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