How long does it take to read Dust?
Dust by Hugh Howey takes about 8 hours 30 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Silo
Previous: Shift
About 8 hours 30 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2013. 464 pages, about 127,600 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 11 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 30 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 19 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Armed with secret knowledge, Juliette, now mayor of Silo 18 and her crew set out to rescue a world she hates but now understands better -- the world of the Silos with its rigid rules and terrible consequences for disobedience.
Subjects: Sheriffs, Underground areas, Revolutions, Subterranean Civilization, Fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general
