How long does it take to read The Border Trilogy?
The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy takes about 18 hours 55 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 18 hours 55 minutes
A long haul
First published 1999. 1,032 pages, about 283,800 words.
38 days (about 6 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 31 hours 32 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 18 hours 55 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 11 hours 50 minutes |
The page count is the median across 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Border Trilogy is a series of novels by the American author Cormac McCarthy: All the Pretty Horses (1992), The Crossing (1994), and Cities of the Plain (1998). The trilogy revolves around the coming of age and adventures of two young cowboys, John Grady Cole and Billy Parham, and is mainly set on the border between the Southwestern United States and Mexico.
Subjects: Historical fiction, American, American Adventure stories, Wilderness areas, Fiction, Boys, American Historical fiction
