How long does it take to read A Discovery of Witches?
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness takes about 13 hours 12 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of All Souls Trilogy
Next: Shadow of Night
About 13 hours 12 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2011. 720 pages, about 198,000 words.
27 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 22 hours |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 13 hours 12 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 15 minutes |
The page count is the median across 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
An epic, richly inventive, historically sweeping, magical romance. When historian Diana Bishop opens an alchemical manuscript in the Bodleian Library, it's an unwelcome intrusion of magic into her carefully ordered life. Though Diana is a witch of impeccable lineage, the violent death of her parents while she was still a child convinced her that human fear is more potent than any witchcraft. Now Diana has unwittingly exposed herself to a world she's kept at bay for years; one of powerful witches, creative, destructive daemons and long-lived vampires. Sensing the significance of Diana's discovery, the creatures gather in Oxford, among them the enigmatic Matthew Clairmont, a vampire genticist. Diana is inexplicably drawn to Matthew and, in a shadowy world of half-truths and old enmities, ties herself to him without fully understanding the ancient line they are crossing. As they begin to unlock the secrets of the manuscript and their feelings for each other deepen, so the fragile balance of peace unravels.
Subjects: Vampires--Fiction., Witches--Fiction., Alchemy--Manuscripts--Fiction., Science and magic--Fiction., Alchemy, Vampires
