Cover of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Reading time

How long does it take to read I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings?

by Maya Angelou

At an average pace

4h 31m

67,650 words at 250 a minute

At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 10 days.

That is 9 sessions with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

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45 minutes a day would finish it in about 7 days.

This estimate uses a representative 246-page edition. Page counts can differ between editions, formats, and printings.

How many words is I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings?

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is about 67,650 words, estimated from its 246 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 4 hours 31 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 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings?

Catalog page count
246
Edition ISBN
9780553279375
Author
Maya Angelou
Series
Maya Angelou's Autobiography
Genre
non-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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