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How long does it take to read The Stormlight Archive?

How long to read The Stormlight Archive
6 days 9 hours
5 published books, about 2,187,000 words

The five published Stormlight Archive books come to roughly 2.19 million words, about 153 hours — twice the Harry Potter series, from a projected ten-book sequence that is only half done. The word counts here are unusually reliable for a fiction series because Brandon Sanderson publishes live word-count progress bars while drafting, so the figures are the author's own. Wind and Truth alone is 487,746 words, longer than any single volume of The Lord of the Rings by a wide margin.

The numbers

Total
6 days 9 hours
In hours
153 hours
Non-stop
6.4 days without sleeping
Covers
5 published books, about 2,187,000 words
At a realistic pace
an hour a night
That works out as
about 154 days

What this assumes

About 2,186,523 words at 238 words per minute, covering the five books published to date of a planned ten.

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 Chronicles of Narnia about 24 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 Stormlight Archive?
6 days 9 hours — 5 published books, about 2,187,000 words.
What does that assume?
About 2,186,523 words at 238 words per minute, covering the five books published to date of a planned ten.
How long at a realistic pace?
an hour a night — about 154 days.

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Sources

  1. Calculated on this page — At One Place

How these figures are compiled and checked