How long does it take to read The Caine Mutiny?
The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk takes about 9 hours 50 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 50 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1951. 536 pages, about 147,400 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 23 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 50 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 9 minutes |
The page count is the median across 88 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize this atmospheric novel tells the story in flashback of a mutiny aboard a United States minesweeper during WW2. The murky events of the mutiny emerge during a court-martial and it soon becomes clear that few people will emerge from the trial with any credit.
Subjects: Fiction, American Naval operations, Naval History, United States in fiction, Trials (Mutiny), Romans, nouvelles
