
How long does it take to read The Pelican Brief?
by John Grisham
7h 20m
110,000 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 2 weeks.
That is 15 sessions with The Pelican Brief.
Read it with the Guild45 minutes a day would finish it in about 10 days.
This estimate uses a representative 400-page edition. Page counts can differ between editions, formats, and printings.
How many words is The Pelican Brief?
The Pelican Brief is about 110,000 words, estimated from its 400 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 7 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 Pelican Brief?
- Catalog page count
- 400
- Edition ISBN
- 9780385339704
- Author
- John Grisham
- 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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