How long does it take to read All He Ever Wanted?
a novel
All He Ever Wanted by Anita Shreve takes about 5 hours 54 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 54 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2003. 322 pages, about 88,550 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 50 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 54 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 41 minutes |
The page count is the median across 18 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Years after escaping from a hotel fire and encountering an elusive woman, whom he subsequently married and divorced, a man travels from New England to Florida by train and remembers the relationship.
Subjects: Married people, Fiction, College teachers, Romances, Fiction, historical, Married people, fiction
