How long does it take to read The 5Th Wave?
The 5Th Wave by Rick Yancey takes about 8 hours 57 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 57 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2013. 488 pages, about 134,200 words. Written for young adults.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 55 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 57 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 36 minutes |
The page count is the median across 30 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one. Now, it's the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see. Who have scattered Earth's last survivors. To stay alone is to stay alive, Cassie believes, until she meets Evan Walker. Beguiling and mysterious, Evan Walker may be Cassie's only hope for rescuing her brother-or even saving herself. But Cassie must choose: between trust and despair, between defiance and surrender, between life and death. To give up or to get up.
Subjects: Fiction, Extraterrestrial beings, Science fiction, Survival, War, War stories
