How long does it take to read The Bean Trees?
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver takes about 4 hours 45 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 45 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1988. 259 pages, about 71,225 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 55 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 45 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 58 minutes |
The page count is the median across 31 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Taylor, a poor Kentuckian making her way west with an abandoned baby girl, stops in Tucson where she finds friends and discovers resources in apparently empty places.
Subjects: Indian children, Friendship in fiction, Indian children in fiction, Bildungsromans, Automobile travel in fiction, Fiction
