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How long does it take to read the Twilight saga?

How long to read the Twilight saga
about 41 hours
4 books, 587,246 words

The four Twilight books total 587,246 words, about 41 hours — roughly the same as War and Peace, and more than half the Harry Potter series. Like Harry Potter they grow steeply: Breaking Dawn at 186,542 words is more than half again the length of the first book. Midnight Sun, the 2020 retelling of the first book from the other perspective, is 238,000 words on its own — longer than the book it retells by a factor of two.

The numbers

Total
41 hours 7 minutes
In hours
41.1 hours
Non-stop
1.7 days without sleeping
Covers
4 books, 587,246 words
At a realistic pace
an hour a night
That works out as
about 42 days

What this assumes

587,246 words at 238 words per minute, the four main novels.

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 Hunger Games trilogy about 21 hours

Common questions

How long does it take to read the Twilight saga?
about 41 hours — 4 books, 587,246 words.
What does that assume?
587,246 words at 238 words per minute, the four main novels.
How long at a realistic pace?
an hour a night — about 42 days.

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Sources

  1. Calculated on this page — At One Place

How these figures are compiled and checked