How long does it take to read Shōgun?
a novel of Japan
Shōgun by James Clavell takes about 18 hours 18 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 18 hours 18 minutes
A long haul
First published 1975. 998 pages, about 274,450 words.
37 days (about 6 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 30 hours 30 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 18 hours 18 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 11 hours 26 minutes |
The page count is the median across 12 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Starting with his shipwreck on alien shores, the novel charts Blackthorne's rise from the status of reviled foreigner up to the heights of trusted advisor and eventually, Samurai. All as civil war looms over the fragile country.
Subjects: Fiction, History, Historical fiction, Warlords, Samurai, British in Japan
