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title: "How long to read Animal Farm? about 2 hours 6 minutes"
description: "Animal Farm takes about 2 hours 6 minutes — 29,966 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 Animal Farm?

**How long to read Animal Farm: about 2 hours 6 minutes**

29,966 words

Animal Farm is 29,966 words, about two hours — the length of a feature film, which is roughly what Orwell intended. It is technically a novella and is the shortest entry here. Four publishers rejected it in 1944, at least one on political grounds. It can be read start to finish in less time than it takes to watch most of the films on this list.

## The numbers

- **Total:** 2 hours 6 minutes
- **In hours:** 2.1 hours
- **Non-stop:** 0.1 days without sleeping
- **Covers:** 29,966 words
- **At a realistic pace:** one sitting
- **That works out as:** about 1 days

## What this assumes

29,966 words at 238 words per minute.

## Other books

| What | How long |
| --- | --- |
| Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | about 5 hours 23 minutes |
| Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | about 18 hours |
| The Hobbit | about 6 hours 39 minutes |
| The Bible | about 55 hours |
| War and Peace | about 40 hours |
| Infinite Jest | about 40 hours |
| Moby-Dick | about 15 hours |
| Ulysses | about 19 hours |
| Dune | about 13 hours |
| Pride and Prejudice | about 8 hours 33 minutes |
| Nineteen Eighty-Four | about 6 hours 14 minutes |
| The Great Gatsby | about 3 hours 18 minutes |
| It | about 31 hours |
| The complete works of Shakespeare | about 59 hours |
| The complete Sherlock Holmes | about 72 hours as an audiobook |
| All of English Wikipedia | about 41 years |

## Common questions

### How long does it take to read Animal Farm?

about 2 hours 6 minutes — 29,966 words.

### What does that assume?

29,966 words at 238 words per minute.

### How long at a realistic pace?

one sitting — about 1 days.

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## Sources

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