How long does it take to read American Prometheus?
Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
American Prometheus by Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin takes about 13 hours 13 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 13 hours 13 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2005. 721 pages, about 198,275 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 2 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 13 hours 13 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 16 minutes |
The page count is the median across 19 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Biography of American physicist Robert J. Oppenheimer. Winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.
Subjects: physics, Manhatten Project, atomic bomb, nuclear physics, biography, history
