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title: "How long to read The Wheel of Time? 12 days 20 hours"
description: "The Wheel of Time takes 12 days 20 hours — 15 books, about 4,410,000 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 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

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