How long does it take to read To Kill a Mockingbird (To Kill A Mockingbird #1)?
by Harper Lee
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 (To Kill A Mockingbird #1).
45 minutes a day would finish it in about 7 days.
How we worked this out
To Kill a Mockingbird (To Kill A Mockingbird #1) 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.
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 To Kill a Mockingbird (To Kill A Mockingbird #1), we will replace this estimate with the time they actually took.
To Kill a Mockingbird (To Kill A Mockingbird #1) at a glance
- Pages
- 281
- Author
- Harper Lee
- Series
- To Kill a Mockingbird, book 1
- Genre
- fiction
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