Cover of To Kill a Mockingbird
Reading time

How long does it take to read To Kill a Mockingbird?

by Harper Lee

At an average pace

5h 9m

77,275 words at 250 a minute

At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 11 days.

That is 10 sessions with To Kill a Mockingbird.

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45 minutes a day would finish it in about 7 days.

This estimate uses a representative 281-page edition. Page counts can differ between editions, formats, and printings.

How many words is To Kill a Mockingbird?

To Kill a Mockingbird is about 77,275 words, estimated from its 281 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 5 hours 9 minutes.

We use 250 words a minute, not the 300 most calculators assume. A 2019 meta-analysis of 190 studies puts silent adult reading nearer 238 for non-fiction and 260 for fiction.

How many pages is To Kill a Mockingbird?

Catalog page count
281
Edition ISBN
9780445083769
Author
Harper Lee
Series
To Kill a Mockingbird, book 1
Genre
fiction

These details come from the ReadersGuild catalog. Look up this edition on Google Books. The word count is estimated from pages, not counted from the text. Introductions, notes, and layout can affect the estimate.

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