How long does it take to read My Name Is Red?
Orhan Pamuk, Amankeldī Qūrmet
My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk, Amankeldī Qūrmet takes about 9 hours 50 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 50 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1998. 536 pages, about 147,400 words.
20 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 23 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 50 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 9 minutes |
The page count is the median across 55 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
My Name Is Red (Turkish: Benim Adım Kırmızı) is a 1998 Turkish novel by writer Orhan Pamuk translated into English by Erdağ Göknar in 2001. The novel, concerning miniaturists in the Ottoman Empire of 1591, established Pamuk's international reputation and contributed to his Nobel Prize.
Subjects: Middle East Literature and Drama, Ficción, Fiction, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iluminación de libros y manuscritos, Novela histórica
