How long does it take to read A Confederacy of Dunces?
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole takes about 7 hours 10 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 10 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1980. 391 pages, about 107,525 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 57 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 10 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 29 minutes |
The page count is the median across 69 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero is one Ignatius J. Reilly, "huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter. His story bursts with wholly original characters, denizens of New Orleans' lower depths, incredibly true-to-life dialogue, and the zaniest series of high and low comic adventures."
Subjects: mothers, travel, housing, character, sons, groups
