How long does it take to read Fall of Giants?
Fall of Giants by Ken Follett takes about 18 hours 4 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of The Century Trilogy
Next: Winter of the World
About 18 hours 4 minutes
A long haul
First published 2010. 985 pages, about 270,875 words.
37 days (about 6 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 30 hours 6 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 18 hours 4 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 11 hours 17 minutes |
The page count is the median across 43 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
It is 1911. The Coronation Day of King George V. The Williams, a Welsh coal-mining family, is linked by romance and enmity to the Fitzherberts, aristocratic coal-mine owners. Lady Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German Embassy in London. Their destiny is entangled with that of an ambitious young aide to U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and to two orphaned Russian brothers, whose plans to emigrate to America fall foul of war, conscription and revolution. Five families, American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh, move through the dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage. The plot contains profanity, graphic sexual situations, and violence. Book #1
Subjects: Fiction, History, Twentieth century, Social life and customs, Fiction, historical, Fiction, sagas
