How long does it take to read The Amber Spyglass?
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman takes about 9 hours 58 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 3 of His Dark Materials
Previous: The Subtle Knife Next: Lyra's Oxford
About 9 hours 58 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1999. 544 pages, about 149,600 words.
20 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 37 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 58 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 14 minutes |
The page count is the median across 87 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In the astonishing finale to the His Dark Materials trilogy, Lyra and Will are in unspeakable danger. With help from Iorek Byrnison the armored bear and two tiny Gallivespian spies, they must journey to a dank and gray-lit world where no living soul has ever gone. All the while, Dr. Mary Malone builds a magnificent Amber Spyglass. An assassin hunts her down, and Lord Asriel, with a troop of shining angels, fights his mighty rebellion, in a battle of strange allies—and shocking sacrifice. As war rages and Dust drains from the sky, the fate of the living—and the dead—finally comes to depend on two children and the simple truth of one simple story.
Subjects: Fantasy, Fantasy fiction, Quests (Expeditions), Fiction, Missing persons, Good and evil
