Cover of The Secret
Reading time

How long does it take to read The Secret?

by Rhonda Byrne

Checked July 2026

At an average pace

3h 39m

54,725 words at 250 a minute

At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 8 days.

That is 7 sessions with The Secret.

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45 minutes a day would finish it in about 5 days.

How many words is The Secret?

The Secret is about 54,725 words, estimated from its 199 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 3 hours 39 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 Secret, we will replace this estimate with the time they actually took.

How many pages is The Secret?

Pages
199
Author
Rhonda Byrne
Series
The Secret, book 1
Genre
non-fiction

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