How long does it take to read The Book That Wouldn't Burn?
The Book That Wouldn't Burn by Mark Lawrence takes about 10 hours 24 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 24 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2023. 567 pages, about 155,925 words.
21 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 17 hours 20 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 24 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 30 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A boy has lived his whole life trapped within a vast library, older than empires and larger than cities. A girl has spent hers in a tiny settlement out on the Dust where nightmares stalk and no one goes. The world has never even noticed them. That's about to change. Their stories spiral around each other, across worlds and time. This is a tale of truth and lies and hearts, and the blurring of one into another. A journey on which knowledge erodes certainty, and on which, though the pen may be mightier than the sword, blood will be spilled and cities burned.
