How long does it take to read Outlander (Outlander #1)?
by Diana Gabaldon
11h 58m
179,575 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 3 weeks.
That is 24 sessions with Outlander (Outlander #1).
45 minutes a day would finish it in about 2 weeks.
How we worked this out
Outlander (Outlander #1) is about 179,575 words, estimated from its 653 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 11 hours 58 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 Outlander (Outlander #1), we will replace this estimate with the time they actually took.
Outlander (Outlander #1) at a glance
- Pages
- 653
- Author
- Diana Gabaldon
- Series
- Outlander, book 1
- Genre
- history, historical fiction, biography
Knowing the number is the easy part.
The hours are the hard part, and they are easier with company. ReadersGuild is where people read Outlander (Outlander #1) alongside each other, one session at a time.
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