
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.
Read it with the Guild45 minutes a day would finish it in about 11 days.
This estimate uses a representative 415-page edition. Page counts can differ between editions, formats, and printings.
How many words is Gone Girl?
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.
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 Gone Girl?
- Catalog page count
- 415
- Edition ISBN
- 9780307588371
- Author
- Gillian Flynn
- 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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