How long does it take to read Any Human Heart?
a novel
Any Human Heart by William Boyd takes about 9 hours 13 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 13 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2002. 503 pages, about 138,325 words.
19 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 22 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 13 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 46 minutes |
The page count is the median across 23 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
ANY HUMAN HEART is an ambitious, all-encompassing novel. Through the intimate journals of Logan Mounstuart we travel from Uruguay to Oxford, on to Paris, the Bahamas, New York and West Africa, and meet his three wives, his family, his friends and colleagues, his rivals, enemies and lovers, including notables such as the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Ernest Hemingway and Virginia Woolf.
Subjects: Biographers, Novelists, British, Fiction, Art dealers, Logan Montstuart (Fictitious character)
