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How long does it take to read Imiginary Friend?

Stephen Chbosky

Imiginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky takes about 13 hours 12 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 13 hours 12 minutes

A week or two of reading

First published 2019. 720 pages, about 198,000 words.

27 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 22 hours
Average, 250 words a minute 13 hours 12 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 8 hours 15 minutes

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

About the book

Christopher is seven years old. Christopher is the new kid in town. Christopher has an imaginary friend. We can swallow our fear or let our fear swallow us. Single mother Kate Reese is on the run. Determined to improve life for her and her son, Christopher, she flees an abusive relationship in the middle of the night with her child. Together, they find themselves drawn to the tight-knit community of Mill Grove, Pennsylvania. It's as far off the beaten track as they can get. Just one highway in, one highway out. At first, it seems like the perfect place to finally settle down. Then Christopher vanishes. For six long days, no one can find him. Until Christopher emerges from the woods at the edge of town, unharmed but not unchanged. He returns with a voice in his head only he can hear, with a mission only he can complete: Build a treehouse in the woods by Christmas, or his mother and everyone in the town will never be the same again.

Subjects: Fiction, horror, Missing persons, fiction, Parent and child, fiction, Fiction, thrillers, general, Horror, Fiction

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