How long does it take to read Not Without Laughter?
Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes takes about 5 hours 40 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 40 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1930. 309 pages, about 84,975 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 27 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 40 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 32 minutes |
The page count is the median across 47 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This is a coming of age story of an African-American boy in a small Kansas town.
Subjects: Fiction, African American boys, City and town life, Fiction, family life, Fiction, coming of age, Kansas, fiction
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