How long does it take to read The Way of Kings?
by Brandon Sanderson
18h 28m
276,925 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 5 weeks.
That is 37 sessions with The Way of Kings.
45 minutes a day would finish it in about 4 weeks.
How we worked this out
The Way of Kings is about 276,925 words, estimated from its 1,007 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 18 hours 28 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 Way of Kings, we will replace this estimate with the time they actually took.
The Way of Kings at a glance
- Pages
- 1,007
- Author
- Brandon Sanderson
- Series
- The Stormlight Archive, book 1
- Genre
- fantasy, paranormal
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