How long does it take to read The Best American Short Stories 2008?
Salman Rushdie, Heidi Pitlor, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Kevin Brockmeier, Karen Brown, Katie Chase, Danielle Evans, Allegra Goodman, A. M. Homes, Nicole Krauss, Jonathan Lethem, Rebecca Makkai, Steven Millhauser, Daniyal Mueenuddin, Alice Munro, Miroslav Penkov, Karen Russell, George Saunders, Christine Sneed, Bradford Tice, Mark S. Wisniewski, Tobias Wolff
The Best American Short Stories 2008 by Salman Rushdie, Heidi Pitlor, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Kevin Brockmeier, Karen Brown, Katie Chase, Danielle Evans, Allegra Goodman, A. M. Homes, Nicole Krauss, Jonathan Lethem, Rebecca Makkai, Steven Millhauser, Daniyal Mueenuddin, Alice Munro, Miroslav Penkov, Karen Russell, George Saunders, Christine Sneed, Bradford Tice, Mark S. Wisniewski, Tobias Wolff takes about 6 hours 34 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 34 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2008. 358 pages, about 98,450 words.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 56 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 34 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 6 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: American Short stories, American fiction, Short stories, American
