How long does it take to read Doomsday Book?
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis takes about 10 hours 26 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Oxford time-traveling historians
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About 10 hours 26 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1992. 569 pages, about 156,475 words.
21 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 17 hours 23 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 26 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 31 minutes |
The page count is the median across 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Somewhere in the future, ordinary history students must travel back in time as part of their university degree. An award-winning best-seller in the United States, this is the first of Connie Willis' brilliant Oxford trilogy.Kivrin knows everything about the Middle Ages - she's read all the books. She knows it's dangerous: cutthroats in the woods, witch hunts, cholera, and millions dying in the plague. For a young historian, it's fascinating.When Kivrin's tutors in Oxford's history lab finally agree to send her on an on-site study trip, she jumps at the chance to observe medieval life first-hand. But a crisis that strangely links the past and future leaves her stranded in the most deadly and terrifying era in human history, face to face with the heart-rending reality behind the statistics. And while she fights for her own life, Kivrin finds she has become an unlikely angel of hope in this dark time.Five years in the writing, Doomsday Book is a storytelling triumph. Connie Willis draws upon her understanding of the universalities of human nature to explore the timeless issues of evil, suffering and the indomitable will of the human spirit.
Subjects: Black Death, Fantasy, Fiction, History, Hugo Award Winner, Middle Ages
