How long does it take to read A Time to Kill?
by John Grisham
9h 27m
141,625 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 3 weeks.
That is 19 sessions with A Time to Kill.
45 minutes a day would finish it in about 13 days.
How we worked this out
A Time to Kill is about 141,625 words, estimated from its 515 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 9 hours 27 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 A Time to Kill, we will replace this estimate with the time they actually took.
A Time to Kill at a glance
- Pages
- 515
- Author
- John Grisham
- Series
- Jake Brigance
- Genre
- mystery, thriller, crime
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