How Long Does It Take to Read Any Book?
Browse reading time estimates by skill level, difficulty ratings, and test your speed on excerpts from popular books.
42 books found
The Holy Bible (King James Version)
Various
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
J.K. Rowling
1984
George Orwell
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger
Animal Farm
George Orwell
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte
Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Dracula
Bram Stoker
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
Atomic Habits
James Clear
The Power of Habit
Charles Duhigg
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen R. Covey
Rich Dad Poor Dad
Robert T. Kiyosaki
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
The Art of War
Sun Tzu
The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
The Lord of the Rings (Three-Volume Work)
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Chronicles of Narnia (Series)
C.S. Lewis
Dune
Frank Herbert
Foundation
Isaac Asimov
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak
Beloved
Toni Morrison
The Color Purple
Alice Walker
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
Educated
Tara Westover
Becoming
Michelle Obama
The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank
Night
Elie Wiesel
Into the Wild
Jon Krakauer
About Our Book Reading Time Estimates
Our reading time calculations are based on three reading speed tiers: beginner (150 WPM), intermediate (238 WPM, the scientifically validated average from Brysbaert's 2019 meta-analysis), and advanced (350 WPM). Each book also includes a vocabulary difficulty score and sentence complexity rating to help you gauge how challenging the text will be. Try our embedded speed test on any book page to see how fast you read that specific author's prose.
These estimates cover whole books. If you would rather plan a single sitting, see how many pages per hour you finish at your own speed — the figure changes a lot between a paperback novel and a textbook, because their pages hold very different amounts of text.