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How long does it take to read Dune?

How long to read Dune
about 13 hours
about 187,000 words

Dune is around 187,000 words, roughly thirteen hours of reading. It was rejected by more than twenty publishers before Chilton, a company best known for car repair manuals, took it. The two Villeneuve films together run 321 minutes and cover a little over half the novel, so the film adaptation runs at about one minute per 350 words of source. Reading the book takes roughly two and a half times as long as watching both films.

The numbers

Total
13 hours 6 minutes
In hours
13.1 hours
Non-stop
0.5 days without sleeping
Covers
about 187,000 words
At a realistic pace
an hour a night
That works out as
about 14 days

What this assumes

About 187,000 words at 238 words per minute. Published figures range from 181,493 to 188,000.

Word counts from 181,493 to 188,000 circulate; no primary source publishes one.

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
Pride and Prejudice about 8 hours 33 minutes
Nineteen Eighty-Four about 6 hours 14 minutes
The Great Gatsby about 3 hours 18 minutes
Animal Farm about 2 hours 6 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 Dune?
about 13 hours — about 187,000 words.
What does that assume?
About 187,000 words at 238 words per minute. Published figures range from 181,493 to 188,000.
How long at a realistic pace?
an hour a night — about 14 days.

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Sources

  1. Calculated on this page — At One Place

How these figures are compiled and checked