How long does it take to read The Grapes of Wrath?
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck takes about 10 hours 8 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 8 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1939. 553 pages, about 152,075 words.
21 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 54 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 8 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 20 minutes |
The page count is the median across 321 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Steinbeck’s classic novel of the Great Depression is as vivid now as ever. The story focuses on a family of Oklahoma sharecroppers, farmers who work another man’s land for a share of the crops. Driven from their home by drought and poverty they take to the road in a battered old truck and make their way to California to look for work. When they arrive they find hundreds of others like them being forced to work for breadline wages. they begin working as fruit pickers, strike-breakers replacing the people who have been trying to establish a union but their consciences force them to leave.
Subjects: Labor camps, Depressions, Pulitzer Prize Winner, Fiction, California
