How long does it take to read Billiards at Half-Past Nine?
Billiards at Half-Past Nine by Heinrich Böll takes about 5 hours 16 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 16 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1959. 287 pages, about 78,925 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 46 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 16 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 17 minutes |
The page count is the median across 20 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
After being drawn into the Second World War to command retreating German forces despite his anti-Nazi feelings, Faehmel struggles to re-establish a normal life at war's end by creating a rigorous routine for himself, which includes a daily game of billiards.
Subjects: Social life and customs, Fiction, Social conditions, Manners and customs, Fiction, general, German fiction
