How long does it take to read Delirium?
Delirium by Lauren Oliver takes about 8 hours 5 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 5 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2011. 441 pages, about 121,275 words. Written for children.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 29 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 5 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 3 minutes |
The page count is the median across 18 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Delirium, a young adult dystopian novel from 2011, takes place in Portland, Maine, in 2091. Society survives only in a few guarded cities, cut off from the unregulated Wilds beyond electric fences. The government insists that love is a disease and requires a surgical cure for everyone at eighteen. Lena Haloway, an orphan raised by her aunt and uncle, obediently awaits her own procedure. Then, only months before it, she falls for Alex, a boy with a hidden secret, and begins to question everything she has been taught. It opens a trilogy.
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Subjects: Children's fiction, Maine, fiction, Love, fiction, Science fiction, Orphans, fiction, Family life, fiction
