How long does it take to read The Hate U Give?
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas takes about 8 hours 18 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 18 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2017. 453 pages, about 124,575 words. Written for children.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 51 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 18 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 11 minutes |
The page count is the median across 59 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Starr Carter is a 16-year-old African-American narrator who moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the wealthy, mostly white private school she attends across the city. Her life changes when she watches a white police officer shoot her childhood friend Khalil dead, and the killing turns into a national news story. Starr must work out how to cope with the trauma of what she saw while keeping her two identities apart. Thomas's debut novel, which grew from a short story about Oscar Grant's shooting, explores race, code switching and the Black Lives Matter movement.
This summary was written by AI and checked by a second AI model. How these are chosen.
Subjects: black lives matter, Fiction, National Book Awards Longlist, Race relations, African American teenagers, Police shootings
