How long does it take to read The Book of Accidents?
The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig takes about 9 hours 54 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 54 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2021. 540 pages, about 148,500 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 30 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 54 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 11 minutes |
The page count is the median across 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Long ago, Nathan lived in a house in the country with his abusive father—and has never told his family what happened there. Long ago, Maddie was a little girl making dolls in her bedroom when she saw something she shouldn’t have—and is trying to remember that lost trauma by making haunting sculptures. Long ago, something sinister, something hungry, walked in the tunnels and the mountains and the coal mines of their hometown in rural Pennsylvania. Now, Nate and Maddie Graves are married, and they have moved back to their hometown with their son, Oliver. And now what happened long ago is happening again . . . and it is happening to Oliver. He meets a strange boy who becomes his best friend, a boy with secrets of his own and a taste for dark magic. This dark magic puts them at the heart of a battle of good versus evil and a fight for the soul of the family—and perhaps for all of the world. But the Graves family has a secret weapon in this battle: their love for one another.
Subjects: Horror, Fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Mystery, Paranormal
