How long does it take to read Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix?
by J.K. Rowling
15h 57m
239,250 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 5 weeks.
That is 32 sessions with Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
45 minutes a day would finish it in about 3 weeks.
How we worked this out
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is about 239,250 words, estimated from its 870 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 15 hours 57 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 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, we will replace this estimate with the time they actually took.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix at a glance
- Pages
- 870
- Author
- J.K. Rowling
- Series
- Harry Potter, book 5
- Genre
- fantasy, paranormal
Knowing the number is the easy part.
The hours are the hard part, and they are easier with company. ReadersGuild is where people read Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix alongside each other, one session at a time.
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