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How long does it take to read The Wheel of Time?

How long to read The Wheel of Time
12 days 20 hours
15 books, about 4,410,000 words

The Wheel of Time is about 4.41 million words across fifteen books, roughly 309 hours of reading — nearly thirteen days without stopping, or ten months at an hour a night. It is one of the longest completed narrative works in English, over four times the Harry Potter series. Robert Jordan died in 2007 with the series unfinished; Brandon Sanderson completed it from notes across three further volumes. Reading it takes longer than watching every episode of The Simpsons.

The numbers

Total
12 days 20 hours
In hours
309 hours
Non-stop
12.9 days without sleeping
Covers
15 books, about 4,410,000 words
At a realistic pace
an hour a night
That works out as
about 309 days

What this assumes

About 4,410,000 words at 238 words per minute, covering fourteen main novels and the prequel New Spring.

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 Stormlight Archive 6 days 9 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 Wheel of Time?
12 days 20 hours — 15 books, about 4,410,000 words.
What does that assume?
About 4,410,000 words at 238 words per minute, covering fourteen main novels and the prequel New Spring.
How long at a realistic pace?
an hour a night — about 309 days.

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Sources

  1. Calculated on this page — At One Place

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