How long does it take to read The Clan of the Cave Bear?
The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel takes about 9 hours 50 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Earth's Children hexalogy
Next: The Valley of Horses
About 9 hours 50 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1900. 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 89 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Clan of the Cave Bear is a 1980 novel and epic work of prehistoric fiction by Jean M. Auel about prehistoric times. It is the first book in the Earth's Children book series, which speculates on the possibilities of interactions between Neanderthal and modern Cro-Magnon humans.
Subjects: Neanderthals, shamanism, taboos, prehistoric fiction, epic, epic fiction
