How long does it take to read Sovereign?
Sovereign by C. J. Sansom takes about 10 hours 19 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 19 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2001. 563 pages, about 154,825 words.
21 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 17 hours 12 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 19 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 27 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The third installment of C. J. Sansom's acclaimed Matthew Shardlake mystery seriesC. J . Sansom has garnered a wider audience and increased critical praise with each new novel published. His first book in the Matthew Shardlake series, Dissolution, was selected by P. D. James in The Wall Street Journal as one of her top-five all-time favorite books. Now in Sovereign, Shardlake and his loyal assistant, Jack Barak, find themselves embroiled in royal intrigue when a plot against King Henry VIII is uncovered in York and a dangerous conspirator they've been charged with transporting to London is connected to the death of a local glazer.
Subjects: History, Fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Historical fiction, Legal stories, Fiction, mystery & detective, general
