How long does it take to read The Handmaid's Tale?
by Margaret Atwood
6h 4m
91,025 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 13 days.
That is 12 sessions with The Handmaid's Tale.
Read it with the Guild45 minutes a day would finish it in about 9 days.
This estimate uses a representative 331-page edition. Page counts can differ between editions, formats, and printings.
How many words is The Handmaid's Tale?
The Handmaid's Tale is about 91,025 words, estimated from its 331 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 6 hours 4 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 Handmaid's Tale?
- Catalog page count
- 331
- Edition ISBN
- 9780385490818
- Author
- Margaret Atwood
- Genre
- fiction
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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