How long does it take to read Nine Princes in Amber?
Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny takes about 3 hours 27 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of The Chronicles of Amber
Next: The Guns of Avalon
About 3 hours 27 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1970. 188 pages, about 51,700 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 45 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 27 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 9 minutes |
The page count is the median across 22 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
First in the "Chronicles of Amber" series of fantasy books. The story begins in the hospital when the protagonist wakes up from a coma with amnesia, his true identity unknown to him. He begins his adventure by visiting his sister and we follow him through the story as he slowly regains his lost memory and real purpose as a member of a royal family of Amber.
Subjects: Parallel Worlds, Amber (Imaginary place), Fiction, Fantasy, Amber (imaginary place), fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general