How long does it take to read Oryx and Crake?
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood takes about 7 hours 8 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of MaddAddam Series
Next: The Year of the Flood
About 7 hours 8 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2002. 389 pages, about 106,975 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 53 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 8 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 27 minutes |
The page count is the median across 49 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Oryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive Oryx whom they both loved. In search of answers, Snowman embarks on a journey–with the help of the green-eyed Children of Crake–through the lush wilderness that was so recently a great city, until powerful corporations took mankind on an uncontrolled genetic engineering ride. Margaret Atwood projects us into a near future that is both all too familiar and beyond our imagining.
Content warnings (AI-checked, may be incomplete)
- violence
- sexual content
- drug use
Subjects: Literary Fiction, friendship, fantasy, genetic engineering, fiction, science fiction
