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How long does it take to read I Know This Much Is True?

Wally Lamb

I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb takes about 16 hours 43 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 16 hours 43 minutes

A long haul

First published 1998. 912 pages, about 250,800 words.

34 days (about 5 weeks) at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 27 hours 52 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 16 hours 43 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 10 hours 27 minutes

The page count is the median across 14 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

E-book extra: "Who Is Wally Lamb?" The author recalls events surrounding the acclaimed publication of I Know This Much Is True. ( Not available in print editions of this work.)Wally Lamb's masterful novel of transgression and redemption, now in e-book format.A contemporary retelling of an ancient Hindu myth: a proud king must confront his demons to achieve salvation. Change yourself, the myth instructs, and you will inhabit a renovated world....

Subjects: Fiction, Mentally ill, Twins, Brothers, Italian Americans, Fathers and sons

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