How long does it take to read Atlas Shrugged?
Ayn Rand, Sophie Bastide-Foltz, Adrian Rand
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, Sophie Bastide-Foltz, Adrian Rand takes about 20 hours 16 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 20 hours 16 minutes
A long haul
First published 1936. 1,105 pages, about 303,875 words.
41 days (about 6 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 33 hours 46 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 20 hours 16 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 12 hours 40 minutes |
The page count is the median across 84 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Atlas Shrugged is a novel by Ayn Rand set in a dystopian United States of unspecified date, where shortages, business failures and falling productivity point toward economic collapse. Heavy industry labors under ever more burdensome regulation. Dagny Taggart, a railroad executive, struggles to keep her company running, while Hank Rearden, a self-made steel producer, develops a new alloy. Both resist the looters who want to exploit what they produce. Around them, people repeat the puzzling question of who John Galt is. Rand said the book's theme is the part the human mind plays in existence.
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Subjects: Fiction, Fiction, action & adventure, Fiction, science fiction, general, Egoism, Capitalism, Objectivism (Philosophy)
