Cover of The Lost Symbol
Reading time

How long does it take to read The Lost Symbol?

by Dan Brown

At an average pace

9h 20m

139,975 words at 250 a minute

At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 3 weeks.

That is 19 sessions with The Lost Symbol.

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45 minutes a day would finish it in about 13 days.

This estimate uses a representative 509-page edition. Page counts can differ between editions, formats, and printings.

How many words is The Lost Symbol?

The Lost Symbol is about 139,975 words, estimated from its 509 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 9 hours 20 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 Lost Symbol?

Catalog page count
509
Edition ISBN
9780385504225
Author
Dan Brown
Series
Robert Langdon, book 3
Genre
mystery, thriller, crime

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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