How long does it take to read Recitatif?
Recitatif by Toni Morrison takes about 1 hour 28 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 28 minutes
An evening's read
First published 2022. 80 pages, about 22,000 words.
3 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 2 hours 27 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 28 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 55 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: African American women, Fiction, White Women, African Americans, Race identity, White people
