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title: "How long to read The Stormlight Archive? 6 days 9 hours"
description: "The Stormlight Archive takes 6 days 9 hours — 5 published books, about 2,187,000 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 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

- Calculated on this page — At One Place (/about/)