How long does it take to read Wonder (Wonder #1)?
by R.J. Palacio
5h 48m
86,900 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 12 days.
That is 12 sessions with Wonder (Wonder #1).
45 minutes a day would finish it in about 8 days.
How we worked this out
Wonder (Wonder #1) is about 86,900 words, estimated from its 316 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 5 hours 48 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 Wonder (Wonder #1), we will replace this estimate with the time they actually took.
Wonder (Wonder #1) at a glance
- Pages
- 316
- Author
- R.J. Palacio
- Series
- Wonder, book 1
- Genre
- fiction
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