How long does it take to read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams takes about 3 hours 58 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
About 3 hours 58 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1979. 216 pages, about 59,400 words.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 36 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 58 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 29 minutes |
The page count is the median across 130 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is the first of six books in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction "hexalogy" by Douglas Adams. The novel is an adaptation of the first four parts of Adams's radio series of the same name. The novel was first published in London on 12 October 1979. It sold 250,000 copies in the first three months. The namesake of the novel is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a fictional guide book for hitchhikers (inspired by the Hitch-hiker's Guide to Europe) written in the form of an encyclopaedia. ---
Subjects: comic science fiction, Vogons, Humorous fiction, Imaginary voyages, wit and humour, Science Fiction
More by Douglas Adams
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe 4.1 h 
Life, the Universe and Everything 3.9 h 
Works (Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy / Restaurant at the End of the Universe / Life, the Universe and Everything / So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish / Mostly Harmless / Young Zaphod Plays it Safe) 15.0 h 
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency 5.1 h 
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish 3.7 h 
Novels (Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy / Restaurant at the End of the Universe / Life, the Universe and Everything / So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish) 10.8 h 
