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How long does it take to read Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix?

How long to read Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
about 18 hours
257,045 words

Order of the Phoenix is the longest book in the series at 257,045 words — 766 pages in the first UK edition and 870 in the US one. It takes about 18 hours to read, more than three times the first book. It is longer than Moby-Dick and longer than any of the Lord of the Rings volumes. The gap between books four and five was three years, the longest in the series, and the length is part of why.

The numbers

Total
18 hours
In hours
18 hours
Non-stop
0.8 days without sleeping
Covers
257,045 words
At a realistic pace
an hour a night
That works out as
about 18 days
As an audiobook
27 hours

What this assumes

257,045 words at 238 words per minute.

Other books

What How long
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone about 5 hours 23 minutes
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
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 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix?
about 18 hours — 257,045 words.
What does that assume?
257,045 words at 238 words per minute.
How long at a realistic pace?
an hour a night — about 18 days.

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Sources

  1. Calculated on this page — At One Place

How these figures are compiled and checked