How long does it take to read A People's History of the United States?
by Howard Zinn
13h 22m
200,475 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 4 weeks.
That is 27 sessions with A People's History of the United States.
45 minutes a day would finish it in about 3 weeks.
How we worked this out
A People's History of the United States is about 200,475 words, estimated from its 729 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 13 hours 22 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 A People's History of the United States, we will replace this estimate with the time they actually took.
A People's History of the United States at a glance
- Pages
- 729
- Author
- Howard Zinn
- Genre
- history, historical fiction, biography
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