How long does it take to read The Chronicles of Narnia?

All seven Narnia books together are about 345,000 words, roughly 24 hours — less than a third of the Harry Potter series and about the same as reading The Count of Monte Cristo. They are short: the average volume is under 50,000 words, about the length of The Great Gatsby. The publication order and the internal chronological order differ, and which one to read in is a genuinely unsettled argument that C. S. Lewis himself answered ambiguously.

The numbers

Total

24 hours 12 minutes

In hours

24.2 hours

Non-stop

1 days without sleeping

Covers

7 books, about 345,000 words

At a realistic pace

an hour a night

That works out as

about 25 days

What this assumes

About 345,535 words at 238 words per minute, across all seven books.

The series word-count total comes from a single aggregator and could not be corroborated independently.

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