How long does it take to read A Dance With Dragons?
A Dance With Dragons by George R. R. Martin takes about 19 hours 4 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 5 of A Song of Ice and Fire
Previous: A Feast for Crows Next: The Winds of Winter
About 19 hours 4 minutes
A long haul
First published 2004. 1,040 pages, about 286,000 words.
39 days (about 6 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 31 hours 47 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 19 hours 4 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 11 hours 55 minutes |
The page count is the median across 49 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In the aftermath of a colossal battle, the future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance once again–beset by newly emerging threats from every direction. In the east, Daenerys Targaryen, the last scion of House Targaryen, rules with her three dragons as queen of a city built on dust and death. But Daenerys has three times three thousand enemies, and many have set out to find her. Yet, as they gather, one young man embarks upon his own quest for the queen, with an entirely different goal in mind. Fleeing from Westeros with a price on his head, Tyrion Lannister, too, is making his way to Daenerys. But his newest allies in this quest are not the rag-tag band they seem, and at their heart lies one who could undo Daenerys’s claim to Westeros forever. To the north lies the mammoth Wall of ice and stone–a structure only as strong as those guarding it. There, Jon Snow, 998th Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch, will face his greatest challenge yet. For he has powerful foes not only within the Watch but also beyond, in the land of the creatures of ice. And from all corners, bitter conflicts soon reignite, intimate betrayals are perpetrated, and a grand cast of outlaws and priests, soldiers and skinchangers, nobles and slaves, will face seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Some will fail, others will grow in the strength of darkness. But in a time of rising restlessness, the tides of destiny and politics will lead inevitably to the greatest dance of all. . . . Preceded by: A Feast for Crows Followed by: The Winds of Winter (planned)
Content warnings (AI-checked, may be incomplete)
- violence
- sexual content
- abuse
- war
Subjects: Seven kingdoms (Imaginary place), Fiction, Epic, Fantasy, Imaginary wars and battles, Adventure
