How long does it take to read Best Short Stories?
Raymond Harris, Katherine Mansfield, James Baldwin, Frank O'Connor, Katherine Anne Porter, Jean-Paul Sartre, John Updike, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Faulkner, Truman Capote, Isaac Asimov, Woody Allen, Mark Twain, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Shirley Jackson, John Steinbeck
Best Short Stories by Raymond Harris, Katherine Mansfield, James Baldwin, Frank O'Connor, Katherine Anne Porter, Jean-Paul Sartre, John Updike, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Faulkner, Truman Capote, Isaac Asimov, Woody Allen, Mark Twain, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Shirley Jackson, John Steinbeck takes about 10 hours 13 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 13 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1980. 557 pages, about 153,175 words. Written for children.
21 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 17 hours 1 minute |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 13 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 23 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The garden party / Katherine Mansfield Tell me how long the train's been gone / James Baldwin My Oedipus complex / Frank O'Connor The jilting of Granny Weatherall / Katherine Anne Porter The wall / Jean-Paul Sartre The Christian roommates / John Updike Young goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne The black cat / Edgar Allan Poe A rose for Emily / William Faulkner A Christmas memory / Truman Capote The leader of the people / John Steinbeck Nightfall / Isaac Asimov The Kugelmass episode / Woody Allen The man that corrupted Hadleyburg / Mark Twain The gentleman from Cracow / Isaac B. Singer The lottery / Shirley Jackson
Subjects: fiction, horror fiction, cats, Children's fiction, short story, first-person narrative
