How long does it take to read Little Brother?
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow takes about 7 hours 1 minute to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Little Brother
Next: Homeland
About 7 hours 1 minute
A weekend read
First published 2008. 383 pages, about 105,325 words. Written for children.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 42 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 1 minute |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 23 minutes |
The page count is the median across 29 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Seventeen year old Marcus and his friends are in the wrong place at the wrong time during a major terrorist attack on San Francisco. They are held by the Department of Homeland Security for days before being released only to discover that their city has turned into surveillance society police state. They decide to resist in the only way they know how by taking on the DHS. This book is distributed freely under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike license from the author's website.
Subjects: Fiction, Computer hackers, Civil rights, Terrorism, Juvenile fiction, United States
