How long does it take to read The Girl on the Train?
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins takes about 6 hours 36 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 36 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2014. 360 pages, about 99,000 words.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 36 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 8 minutes |
The page count is the median across 34 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Rachel Watson, a 33-year-old struggling with alcoholism, has lost both her marriage and her job, yet she keeps riding the commuter train into London each day so her roommate won't learn the truth. The route carries her past her former home, where her ex-husband now lives with his new wife and their child. She also gazes at a nearby couple and invents a perfect life for them. When the woman from that couple, Megan, vanishes, Rachel, haunted by blackouts and gaps in memory, becomes entangled in the search.
This summary was written by AI and checked by a second AI model. How these are chosen.
Subjects: Witnesses, Murder victims, Alcoholics, Commuters, Fiction, Railroad travel
