
How long does it take to read Outliers: The Story of Success?
by Malcolm Gladwell
5h 40m
84,975 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 12 days.
That is 11 sessions with Outliers: The Story of Success.
Read it with the Guild45 minutes a day would finish it in about 8 days.
This estimate uses a representative 309-page edition. Page counts can differ between editions, formats, and printings.
How many words is Outliers: The Story of Success?
Outliers: The Story of Success is about 84,975 words, estimated from its 309 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 5 hours 40 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 Outliers: The Story of Success?
- Catalog page count
- 309
- Edition ISBN
- 9780316017923
- Author
- Malcolm Gladwell
- 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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