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How long does it take to read Behemoth?

Scott Westerfeld

Behemoth by Scott Westerfeld takes about 8 hours 54 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

Book 2 of Leviathan trilogy

Previous: Leviathan Next: Goliath

About 8 hours 54 minutes

A week or two of reading

First published 2010. 485 pages, about 133,375 words. Written for children.

18 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 14 hours 49 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 8 hours 54 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 5 hours 33 minutes

The page count is the median across 15 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Continues the story of Austrian Prince Alek who, in an alternate 1914 Europe, eludes the Germans by traveling in the Leviathan to Constantinople, where he faces a whole new kind of genetically-engineered warships.

Subjects: War stories, Princes, Juvenile fiction, Genetic engineering, Fiction, Science fiction

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