How long does it take to read The Perks of Being a Wallflower?
by Stephen Chbosky
3h 54m
58,575 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 8 days.
That is 8 sessions with The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
45 minutes a day would finish it in about 6 days.
How we worked this out
The Perks of Being a Wallflower is about 58,575 words, estimated from its 213 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 3 hours 54 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 The Perks of Being a Wallflower, we will replace this estimate with the time they actually took.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower at a glance
- Pages
- 213
- Author
- Stephen Chbosky
- Genre
- young-adult
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