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How long does it take to read 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories?

Lorrie Moore, Heidi Pitlor, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Philip Roth, Alice Munro

100 Years of the Best American Short Stories by Lorrie Moore, Heidi Pitlor, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Philip Roth, Alice Munro takes about 13 hours 32 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 13 hours 32 minutes

A week or two of reading

First published 2015. 738 pages, about 202,950 words.

28 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 22 hours 33 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 13 hours 32 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 8 hours 27 minutes

The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Collects forty short stories published between 1915 and 2015, from writers that include Ernest Hemingway, John Updike, and Alice Munro that exemplify their era and stand the test of time.

Subjects: American Short stories, American fiction, Short stories, american, fiction

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