How long does it take to read The Golden Notebook?
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing takes about 10 hours 52 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 52 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1962. 593 pages, about 163,075 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 7 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 52 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 48 minutes |
The page count is the median across 67 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The story of the inner and outer life of Anna, a young writer, single mother and member of the Communist Party, struggling with crises both in her domestic and political life, this book was hailed as a landmark by the Women's Movement.
Subjects: London (England), Diaries, Women novelists, Feminists, Fiction, English Women novelists
