How long does it take to read Red Dragon?
Red Dragon by Thomas Harris takes about 6 hours 50 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Hannibal Lecter
Next: The Silence of the Lambs
About 6 hours 50 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1981. 373 pages, about 102,575 words.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 24 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 50 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 16 minutes |
The page count is the median across 60 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Red Dragon is a novel by American author Thomas Harris, first published in 1981. The plot follows former FBI profiler Will Graham, who comes out of retirement to find and apprehend an enigmatic serial-killer nicknamed "The Tooth Fairy". The novel introduced the character Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial-killer, whom Graham reluctantly turns to for advice and with whom he has a dark past. The title refers to the figure from William Blake's painting The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun.
Content warnings (AI-checked, may be incomplete)
- violence
- sexual content
- death of a child
- abuse
Subjects: Novel, psychiatrists, cannibalism, serial killers, offender profiling, FBI
