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How long does it take to read The Hunger Games trilogy?

How long to read The Hunger Games trilogy
about 21 hours
3 books, 301,583 words

The original Hunger Games trilogy is 301,583 words, about 21 hours — a weekend. The three books are almost identical in length, within 2,000 words of each other, which is unusual and reflects a series planned as a trilogy from the start rather than extended. The four films made from them run 548 minutes, so watching takes about 43% of the time reading does. Splitting the final book into two films added about two hours of screen time to 100,269 words of source.

The numbers

Total
21 hours 7 minutes
In hours
21.1 hours
Non-stop
0.9 days without sleeping
Covers
3 books, 301,583 words
At a realistic pace
an hour a night
That works out as
about 22 days

What this assumes

301,583 words at 238 words per minute, the original trilogy only.

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
The Chronicles of Narnia about 24 hours
Percy Jackson and the Olympians about 28 hours
The Twilight saga about 41 hours

Common questions

How long does it take to read The Hunger Games trilogy?
about 21 hours — 3 books, 301,583 words.
What does that assume?
301,583 words at 238 words per minute, the original trilogy only.
How long at a realistic pace?
an hour a night — about 22 days.

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Sources

  1. Calculated on this page — At One Place

How these figures are compiled and checked