How long does it take to read We Were Liars?
by E. Lockhart
4h 10m
62,425 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 9 days.
That is 8 sessions with We Were Liars.
45 minutes a day would finish it in about 6 days.
How we worked this out
We Were Liars is about 62,425 words, estimated from its 227 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 4 hours 10 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 We Were Liars, we will replace this estimate with the time they actually took.
We Were Liars at a glance
- Pages
- 227
- Author
- E. Lockhart
- Genre
- young-adult
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