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How long does it take to read Nineteen Eighty-Four?

How long to read Nineteen Eighty-Four
about 6 hours 14 minutes
about 89,000 words

Nineteen Eighty-Four is about 89,000 words and takes a little over six hours to read — one determined day. Around 8,000 of those words are "The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism", the book-within-the-book, which many readers skip and which takes about half an hour. The appendix on Newspeak is written in the past tense, a detail that takes ninety seconds to read and changes the meaning of the entire novel.

The numbers

Total
6 hours 14 minutes
In hours
6.2 hours
Non-stop
0.3 days without sleeping
Covers
about 89,000 words
At a realistic pace
an hour a night
That works out as
about 7 days

What this assumes

About 89,000 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
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 Nineteen Eighty-Four?
about 6 hours 14 minutes — about 89,000 words.
What does that assume?
About 89,000 words at 238 words per minute.
How long at a realistic pace?
an hour a night — about 7 days.

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Sources

  1. Calculated on this page — At One Place

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