How long does it take to read Contagion?
Contagion by Robin Cook takes about 8 hours 23 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
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About 8 hours 23 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1995. 457 pages, about 125,675 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 58 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 23 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 14 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
One of Cook's most successful - & timely - best-sellers. Contagion is a terrifying cautionary tale for the millennium as a deadly epidemic is spread not merely by microbes - but by sabotage.
Subjects: Communicable diseases, Fiction, Science fiction, Medical fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general
