How long does it take to read The Hate U Give?
by Angie Thomas
8h 8m
122,100 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 2 weeks.
That is 16 sessions with The Hate U Give.
45 minutes a day would finish it in about 11 days.
How we worked this out
The Hate U Give is about 122,100 words, estimated from its 444 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 8 hours 8 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 The Hate U Give, we will replace this estimate with the time they actually took.
The Hate U Give at a glance
- Pages
- 444
- Author
- Angie Thomas
- Genre
- young-adult
Knowing the number is the easy part.
The hours are the hard part, and they are easier with company. ReadersGuild is where people read The Hate U Give alongside each other, one session at a time.
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