How long does it take to read Nineteen Minutes?
A novel
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult takes about 10 hours 57 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 57 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2006. 597 pages, about 164,175 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 15 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 57 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 50 minutes |
The page count is the median across 33 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The startling and poignant story of the aftermath of a tragic high school shooting, from the bestselling author of My Sister's Keeper and The Pact.'Picoult makes us ponder the ambiguous relationships between love and lying, legality and morality; the strange ways repressed memories leak into the present.' Los Angeles TimesIntricately textured and rich with psychological and social insight, Jodi Picoult's novels grab readers by the throat from page one and never let go. As emotionally charged as any she has written, Nineteen Minutes is one of her most powerful works to date.Set in a small town in the wake of a horrific school shooting, Nineteen Minutes features the return of two beloved Picoult characters - Jordan McAfee, the lawyer from The Pact and Salem Falls, who once again finds himself representing a boy who desperately needs someone on his side; and Patrick Ducharme, the intrepid detective introduced in Perfect Match, whose best witness is the daughter of the superior court judge assigned to the case. As the story unfolds, layer after layer is peeled back to reveal some hard-hitting questions about the nature of justice, the balance of power and what it means to be different.Nineteen Minutes is a riveting, thought-provoking tale with a jaw-dropping finale.
Subjects: Lawyers, Women judges, High school students, American Psychological fiction, Crimes against, Fiction
