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How long does it take to read The Habit of Loving?

Doris Lessing

The Habit of Loving by Doris Lessing takes about 5 hours 6 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 5 hours 6 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1957. 278 pages, about 76,450 words.

11 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 8 hours 30 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 5 hours 6 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 11 minutes

The page count is the median across 22 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

Subjects: Fiction, Man-woman relationships, English Short stories, English Love stories, English Romance fiction

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