How long does it take to read The Runaway Jury?
by John Grisham
6h 34m
98,450 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 2 weeks.
That is 13 sessions with The Runaway Jury.
45 minutes a day would finish it in about 9 days.
How we worked this out
The Runaway Jury is about 98,450 words, estimated from its 358 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 6 hours 34 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 Runaway Jury, we will replace this estimate with the time they actually took.
The Runaway Jury at a glance
- Pages
- 358
- Author
- John Grisham
- Genre
- mystery, thriller, crime
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