How long does it take to read The Hour I First Believed?
a novel
The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb takes about 13 hours 34 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 13 hours 34 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2008. 740 pages, about 203,500 words.
28 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 22 hours 37 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 13 hours 34 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 29 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: Fiction, Psychic trauma, Married people, Post-traumatic stress disorder, Secrecy, School nurses
