How long does it take to read 1968?
The Year That Rocked the World
1968 by Mark Kurlansky takes about 8 hours 18 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 18 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2003. 453 pages, about 124,575 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 51 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 18 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 11 minutes |
The page count is the median across 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: Revolutions, Insurgency, Radicalism, Modern History, Nonfiction, Resistance to Government
