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How long does it take to read A Song of Ice and Fire?

How long to read A Song of Ice and Fire
5 days 1 hour
5 published books, 1,736,054 words

The five published A Song of Ice and Fire books come to 1,736,054 words, about 122 hours — more than 1.6 times the entire Harry Potter series. The series is unfinished; the fifth book was published in 2011 and the sixth has not appeared. Reading all five takes roughly 76 hours longer than watching the entire television adaptation, which covers the same material and then continues past it. A Storm of Swords and A Dance with Dragons are almost exactly the same length at around 414,000 words each.

The numbers

Total
5 days 1 hour
In hours
122 hours
Non-stop
5.1 days without sleeping
Covers
5 published books, 1,736,054 words
At a realistic pace
an hour a night
That works out as
about 122 days

What this assumes

1,736,054 words at 238 words per minute, covering the five books published to date.

Broken down

Part Time Detail
A Game of Thrones 20 hours 30 minutes 292,727 words
A Clash of Kings 22 hours 20 minutes 318,903 words
A Storm of Swords 29 hours 2 minutes 414,604 words
A Feast for Crows 20 hours 40 minutes 295,032 words
A Dance with Dragons 29 hours 3 minutes 414,788 words

Other book series

What How long
The Harry Potter series about 76 hours
The Lord of the Rings about 32 hours
The Wheel of Time 12 days 20 hours
The Stormlight Archive 6 days 9 hours
The Chronicles of Narnia about 24 hours
Percy Jackson and the Olympians about 28 hours
The Hunger Games trilogy about 21 hours
The Twilight saga about 41 hours

Common questions

How long does it take to read A Song of Ice and Fire?
5 days 1 hour — 5 published books, 1,736,054 words.
What does that assume?
1,736,054 words at 238 words per minute, covering the five books published to date.
How long at a realistic pace?
an hour a night — about 122 days.

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Sources

  1. Calculated on this page — At One Place

How these figures are compiled and checked