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How long does it take to read After (After Series, Book 1)?

Anna Todd

After (After Series, Book 1) by Anna Todd takes about 10 hours 51 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

Part of After

Previous: After We Fell Next: After We Collided

About 10 hours 51 minutes

A week or two of reading

First published 2014. 592 pages, about 162,800 words.

22 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 18 hours 5 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 10 hours 51 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 6 hours 47 minutes

The page count is the median across 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Now a major motion picture! Experience the internet's most talked-about book from Anna Todd, the writer Cosmopolitan called “the biggest literary phenomenon of her generation”—now with new exclusive material! There was the time before Tessa met Hardin, and then there’s everything AFTER... Life will never be the same. #Hessa Tessa is a good girl with a sweet, reliable boyfriend back home. She’s got direction, ambition, and a mother who’s intent on keeping her that way. But she’s barely moved into her freshman dorm when she runs into Hardin. With his tousled brown hair, cocky British accent, and tattoos, Hardin is cute and different from what she’s used to. But he’s also rude—to the point of cruelty, even. For all his attitude, Tessa should hate Hardin. And she does—until she finds herself alone with him in his room. Something about his dark mood grabs her, and when they kiss it ignites within her a passion she’s never known before. He'll call her beautiful, then insist he isn’t the one for her and disappear again and again. Despite the reckless way he treats her, Tessa is compelled to dig deeper and find the real Hardin beneath all his lies. He pushes her away again and again, yet every time she pushes back, he only pulls her in deeper. Tessa already has the perfect boyfriend. So why is she trying so hard to overcome her own hurt pride and Hardin's prejudice about nice girls like her? Unless...could this be love?

Content warnings (AI-checked, may be incomplete)
  • violence
  • sexual content

How these are chosen

Subjects: Man-woman relationships, Contemporary Women, Contemporary, FICTION, Romance, Fiction, romance, contemporary

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