How long does it take to read The Forty Rules of Love?
a novel of Rumi
The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak takes about 6 hours 29 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 29 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2010. 354 pages, about 97,350 words.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 49 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 29 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 3 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: Jewish women, Mevleviyeh, Fiction, Sufism, Sufis, Housewives
