How long does it take to read The Emperor of All Maladies?
Siddhartha Mukherjee, Nessa Carey
The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee, Nessa Carey takes about 10 hours 51 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 51 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2010. 592 pages, about 162,800 words.
22 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 18 hours 5 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 51 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 47 minutes |
The page count is the median across 29 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer is a book written by Siddhartha Mukherjee, an Indian-born American physician and oncologist. Published on 16 November 2010 by Scribner, it won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.
Subjects: medical history, social sciences, history, civilization, oncology, Cancer
