How long does it take to read Almanac of the Dead?
Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko takes about 13 hours 59 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 13 hours 59 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1991. 763 pages, about 209,825 words.
28 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 23 hours 19 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 13 hours 59 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 45 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Leslie dramatizes the often desperate struggle of native peoples in the Americas to keep, at all costs, the core of their culture: their way of seeing, their way of believing, their way of being.
Subjects: Fiction, Indians of Mexico, Indians of North America, Indians of north america, fiction, Indians of mexico, fiction, Fiction, historical, general
