ShelfLook
Tools About
Cover of Sure of You

How long does it take to read Sure of You?

Armistead Maupin

Sure of You by Armistead Maupin takes about 5 hours to read at 250 words a minute.

Book 6 of Tales of the City

Previous: Significant Others Next: Michael Tolliver Lives

About 5 hours

A weekend read

First published 1989. 273 pages, about 75,075 words.

10 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 8 hours 21 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 5 hours
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 8 minutes

The page count is the median across 23 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

A fiercely ambitious TV talk show host finds she must choose between national stardom in New York and a husband and child in San Francisco. Caught in the middle is their longtime friend, a gay man whose own future is even more uncertain. Wistful and compassionate, yet subversively funny, Sure of You could only come from Armistead Maupin.

Subjects: City and town life, Fiction, San francisco (calif.), fiction, Fiction, lgbtq+, gay, California, fiction, Gay men

More by Armistead Maupin

Books like this

Popular books of similar length