How long does it take to read The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #2)?
by Rick Riordan
5h 34m
83,600 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 12 days.
That is 11 sessions with The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #2).
45 minutes a day would finish it in about 8 days.
How we worked this out
The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #2) is about 83,600 words, estimated from its 304 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 5 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 Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #2), we will replace this estimate with the time they actually took.
The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #2) at a glance
- Pages
- 304
- Author
- Rick Riordan
- Series
- Percy Jackson and the Olympians, book 2
- Genre
- fantasy, paranormal
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