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title: "How long to read The Chronicles of Narnia? about 24 hours"
description: "The Chronicles of Narnia takes about 24 hours — 7 books, about 345,000 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 The Chronicles of Narnia?

**How long to read The Chronicles of Narnia: about 24 hours**

7 books, about 345,000 words

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.

## Other book series

| What | How long |
| --- | --- |
| The Harry Potter series | about 76 hours |
| The Lord of the Rings | about 32 hours |
| A Song of Ice and Fire | 5 days 1 hour |
| The Wheel of Time | 12 days 20 hours |
| The Stormlight Archive | 6 days 9 hours |
| Percy Jackson and the Olympians | about 28 hours |
| The Hunger Games trilogy | about 21 hours |
| The Twilight saga | about 41 hours |

## Common questions

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

about 24 hours — 7 books, about 345,000 words.

### What does that assume?

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

### How long at a realistic pace?

an hour a night — about 25 days.

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## Sources

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