How long does it take to read Celestial Navigation?
Celestial Navigation by Anne Tyler takes about 5 hours to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours
A weekend read
First published 1974. 273 pages, about 75,075 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 21 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 8 minutes |
The page count is the median across 23 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
By the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Breathing Lessons", this is the tale of Jeremy Pauling, a 38-year-old bachelor who has never left home. The death of his mother leaves him in charge of a ramshackle boarding house and the arrival of a female lodger brings him a challenge he can't handle.
Subjects: Fiction, Romans, nouvelles, Boardinghouses, Artists, Young women, Agoraphobia
