How long does it take to read Call It Sleep?
Henry Roth
Call It Sleep by Henry Roth takes about 9 hours 58 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 58 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1934. 544 pages, about 149,600 words.
20 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 37 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 58 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 14 minutes |
The page count is the median across 55 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
First published in 1934, and immediately hailed as a masterpiece, this is a novel of Jewish life full of the pain and honesty of family relationships.
Subjects: Fiction, Immigrants, Jews, Boys, Immigrants in fiction, Boys in fiction
