How long does it take to read The Giver?
The Giver by Lois Lowry takes about 3 hours 40 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of The Giver Quartet
Next: Gathering Blue
About 3 hours 40 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1993. 200 pages, about 55,000 words. Written for children.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 7 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 40 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 18 minutes |
The page count is the median across 106 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
At the age of twelve, Jonas, a young boy from a seemingly utopian, futuristic world, is singled out to receive special training from The Giver, who alone holds the memories of the true joys and pain of life.
Content warnings (AI-checked, may be incomplete)
- violence
- death of a child
- suicide
Subjects: Social control, Control (Psychology), Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Science fiction, Memory
