Cover of Life of Pi
Reading time

How long does it take to read Life of Pi?

by Yann Martel

At an average pace

8h 26m

126,500 words at 250 a minute

At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 2 weeks.

That is 17 sessions with Life of Pi.

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45 minutes a day would finish it in about 12 days.

This estimate uses a representative 460-page edition. Page counts can differ between editions, formats, and printings.

How many words is Life of Pi?

Life of Pi is about 126,500 words, estimated from its 460 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 8 hours 26 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 Life of Pi?

Catalog page count
460
Edition ISBN
9780770430078
Author
Yann Martel
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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