How long does it take to read Billy Bathgate M/TV?
Billy Bathgate M/TV by E. L. Doctorow takes about 6 hours 10 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 10 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1989. 336 pages, about 92,400 words.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 16 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 10 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 51 minutes |
The page count is the median across 26 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The story of Billy Bathgate, a boy who has insinuated himself into the inner circle of the notorious Dutch Schultz gang to become apprentice and protege to one of the great murdering gangsters.
Subjects: New york (n.y.), fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, coming of age, Fiction, city life, Criminals, fiction, Criminals
