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How long does it take to read 11/22/63?

Stephen King

11/22/63 by Stephen King takes about 15 hours 34 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 15 hours 34 minutes

A long haul

First published 1925. 849 pages, about 233,475 words.

32 days (about 5 weeks) at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 25 hours 57 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 15 hours 34 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 9 hours 44 minutes

The page count is the median across 50 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

In 2011, Jake Epping, a divorced English teacher at a high school in Lisbon Falls, Maine, is called to the diner run by his friend Al Templeton, who is suddenly dying of lung cancer. In the pantry, Al shows him a portal into September 1958. Every trip lands at the same moment, and the traveler emerges in the present only two minutes later. Al has been planning to stop the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas in 1963, hoping to spare the country the Vietnam War, and he urges Jake to take over the mission.

This summary was written by AI and checked by a second AI model. How these are chosen.

Content warnings (AI-checked, may be incomplete)
  • violence
  • suicide
  • abuse
  • war

How these are chosen

Subjects: Assassination, Time travel, Fiction, Fiction, alternative history

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