How long does it take to read The Beet Queen?
The Beet Queen by Louise Erdrich takes about 6 hours 12 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
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About 6 hours 12 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1986. 338 pages, about 92,950 words.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 20 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 12 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 52 minutes |
The page count is the median across 34 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
On a spring morning in 1932, young Karl and Mary Adare arrive by boxcar in Argus, North Dakota. Orphaned in a most peculiar way, Karl and Mary look for refuge in their mother's sister, Fritzie, who runs a butcher shop with her husband.
Subjects: Fiction, Orphans, North dakota, fiction, Fiction, sagas, Fiction, general, Civilization
