How long does it take to read A Suitable Boy?
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth takes about 25 hours 49 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 25 hours 49 minutes
A long haul
First published 1993. 1,408 pages, about 387,200 words.
52 days (about 8 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 43 hours 1 minute |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 25 hours 49 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 16 hours 8 minutes |
The page count is the median across 29 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The tale of Lata's and her mother's attempts to find a suitable boy, through love or through maternal appraisal. Set in post-independence India and involving the lives of four families, it is also an explanation of a whole continent faced with its first great General Election.
Subjects: Fiction, India in fiction, History, Romans, India, fiction, Fiction, romance, general
