How long does it take to read The Calamity Club?
The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett takes about 11 hours 42 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 11 hours 42 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2026. 638 pages, about 175,450 words.
24 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 19 hours 30 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 42 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 19 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Oxford, Mississippi, 1933. Abandoned by her mother one Christmas Eve, eleven-year-old Meg Lefleur has learned the hard way to rely on no one. Now one of the unadoptable "big girls" at the Lafayette County Orphan Asylum, she fights each day to keep her spirit unbowed. Birdie Calhoun, unmarried and outspoken, has come to Oxford to ask her socialite sister to help the struggling family she’s left behind. But as the Depression tightens its grip, Birdie discovers her sister’s seemingly charmed life is a tapestry of lies. Then, Birdie encounters Charlie, a woman running low on luck with little left to lose. When their fates—and Meg’s—converge, Charlie comes up with an audacious plan for them to take control of their lives. But in a place and time where hypocrisy is rife and women’s freedom is fragile, even the smallest act of defiance can have dangerous consequences.
Subjects: Women—Fiction, Abandoned children—Fiction, Friendship—Fiction, Sisters—Fiction, Women--Social conditions—Fiction, Orphans—Fiction
