How long does it take to read Gone, Baby, Gone?
A Novel
Gone, Baby, Gone by Dennis Lehane takes about 8 hours 19 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Kenzie & Gennaro
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About 8 hours 19 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1998. 454 pages, about 124,850 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 52 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 19 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 12 minutes |
The page count is the median across 43 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
PI Patrick Kenzie is hired to find a four-year-old girl, abducted while the mother was out drinking. The search takes Kenzie through Boston's underworld of drug dealers, kidnapers and pedophiles.
Subjects: Fiction, Patrick Kenzie (Fictitious character), Private investigators, Angela Gennaro (Fictitious character), Crimes against, Children
