How long does it take to read The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants?
by Ann Brashares
5h 23m
80,850 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 11 days.
That is 11 sessions with The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.
45 minutes a day would finish it in about 8 days.
How we worked this out
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is about 80,850 words, estimated from its 294 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 5 hours 23 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 Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, we will replace this estimate with the time they actually took.
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants at a glance
- Pages
- 294
- Author
- Ann Brashares
- Series
- Sisterhood, book 1
- Genre
- young-adult
Knowing the number is the easy part.
The hours are the hard part, and they are easier with company. ReadersGuild is where people read The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants alongside each other, one session at a time.
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