How long does it take to read Dog Years?
Dog Years by Günter Grass takes about 11 hours to read at 250 words a minute.
About 11 hours
A week or two of reading
First published 1963. 600 pages, about 165,000 words. Written for young adults.
22 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 18 hours 20 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 53 minutes |
The page count is the median across 41 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A novel in three parts, beginning in the 1920s and ending in the 1950s, that follows the lives of two friends from the prewar years in Germany through an apocalyptic period and its startling aftermath.
Subjects: Fiction, History, Texts, Social life and customs, Teenagers, German fiction
