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Jodi Picoult

My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult takes about 8 hours 12 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 8 hours 12 minutes

A week or two of reading

First published 2004. 447 pages, about 122,925 words.

17 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 13 hours 40 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 8 hours 12 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 5 hours 7 minutes

The page count is the median across 63 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

With her penetrating insight into the hearts and minds of real people, Jodi Picoult's My Sister's Keeper examines what it means to be a good parent, a good sister, a good person, and what happens when emotions meet with scientific advances. Now a major film. Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions and shots so that her older sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since childhood. Anna was conceived as a bone marrow match for Kate a life and a role that she has never questioned until now. Like most teenagers, Anna is beginning to ask herself who she truly is. But unlike most teenagers, she has always been defined in terms of her sister - and so Anna makes a decision that for most would be unthinkable a decision that will tear her family apart and have perhaps fatal consequences for the sister she loves. Told from multiple points of view, My Sister's Keeper examines what it means to be a good parent, a good sister, a good person. Is it morally correct to do whatever it takes to save a child's life . . . even if that means infringing upon the rights of another? Should you follow your own heart, or let others lead you? Once again, in My Sister's Keeper, Jodi Picoult tackles a controversial real-life subject with grace, wisdom, and sensitivity.

Content warnings (AI-checked, may be incomplete)
  • death of a child
  • drug use

How these are chosen

Subjects: Jodi Picoult, Movie Tie-in, Adult, American Domestic, Fiction, Family

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