How long does it take to read Leviathan Wakes?
Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey takes about 10 hours 51 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of The Expanse
Next: Caliban's War
About 10 hours 51 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2009. 592 pages, about 162,800 words.
22 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 18 hours 5 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 51 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 47 minutes |
The page count is the median across 29 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
When Captain Jim Holden's ice miner stumbles across a derelict, abandoned ship, he uncovers a secret that threatens to throw the entire system into war. Attacked by a stealth ship belonging to the Mars fleet, Holden must find a way to uncover the motives behind the attack, stop a war and find the truth behind a vast conspiracy that threatens the entire human race.
Subjects: Space warfare, Fiction, Interplanetary voyages, Conspiracies, Fiction, science fiction, general
