How long does it take to read The Alienist?
The Alienist by Caleb Carr takes about 10 hours 47 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 47 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1994. 588 pages, about 161,700 words.
22 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 17 hours 58 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 47 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 44 minutes |
The page count is the median across 46 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Set in New York City in 1896, The Alienist is a crime novel narrated by John Moore, a newspaper crime reporter. When a thirteen-year-old immigrant boy who sold himself on the streets is found brutally murdered, police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt quietly assembles a team outside the regular precinct. It includes Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a psychologist known as an alienist, two young detectives eager for new techniques such as fingerprinting, and Sara Howard. They try to understand the killer by studying his victims, while corrupt police and powerful figures such as J. P. Morgan resist their efforts.
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Subjects: Fiction, Serial murders, Mystery fiction, Historical fiction, Serial murders -- Fiction, Psychologists
