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title: "How long to read A Song of Ice and Fire? 5 days 1 hour"
description: "A Song of Ice and Fire takes 5 days 1 hour — 5 published books, 1,736,054 words. What that assumes, how it breaks down, and how long at a realistic pace."
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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

- Calculated on this page — At One Place (/about/)