How long does it take to read Gone Girl?
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn takes about 8 hours 43 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 43 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2011. 475 pages, about 130,625 words.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 31 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 43 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 27 minutes |
The page count is the median across 48 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Gone Girl is a psychological thriller set in North Carthage, Missouri. On their fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne returns home to find his wife Amy gone and signs of a struggle in the house. As detectives investigate, Nick comes under suspicion, and the press scrutinizes his guarded, unemotional behavior. The narrative alternates between his account of the search and Amy's diary entries, which trace how the couple met as writers in New York, married, lost their jobs, and moved to Nick's hometown, where their marriage began to sour.
This summary was written by AI and checked by a second AI model. How these are chosen.
Subjects: FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, Married people, Crimes against, Wives, Husbands, FICTION / Thrillers
