How long does it take to read Americanah?
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie takes about 10 hours 59 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 59 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1969. 599 pages, about 164,725 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 18 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 59 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 52 minutes |
The page count is the median across 58 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Americanah is a 2013 novel by the Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, for which Adichie won the 2013 U.S. National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. Americanah tells the story of a young Nigerian woman, Ifemelu, who immigrates to the United States to attend university. The novel traces Ifemelu's life in both countries, threaded by her love story with high school classmate Obinze.
Subjects: Nigerians, Immigrants, Refugees, African-Americans, literary fiction, African-American fiction
