How long does it take to read Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief?
by Rick Riordan
6h 53m
103,125 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 2 weeks.
That is 14 sessions with Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief.
45 minutes a day would finish it in about 10 days.
How we worked this out
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief is about 103,125 words, estimated from its 375 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 6 hours 53 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 Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, we will replace this estimate with the time they actually took.
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief at a glance
- Pages
- 375
- Author
- Rick Riordan
- Series
- Percy Jackson and the Olympians, book 1
- Genre
- fantasy, paranormal
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