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title: "How long to read the Twilight saga? about 41 hours"
description: "The Twilight saga takes about 41 hours — 4 books, 587,246 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 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

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