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How long does it take to read The House of Sleep?

Jonathan Coe

The House of Sleep by Jonathan Coe takes about 6 hours 4 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 6 hours 4 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1997. 331 pages, about 91,025 words.

13 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 10 hours 7 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 6 hours 4 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 48 minutes

The page count is the median across 19 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Sarah is a narcoleptic who has dreams so vivid she mistakes them for real events; Robert has had his life changed for ever by the misunderstandings arising from her condition; Terry, the insomniac, spends his wakeful nights fuelling his obsession with movies; and the increasingly unstable Dr Gregory Dudden sees sleep as a life-shortening disease which must be eradicated .A group of students sharing a house. They fall in and out of love, they drift apart. Yet a decade later they are drawn back together by a series of coincidences involving their obsession with sleep - and each other...

Subjects: Fiction, Sleep disorders, Fiction, psychological, England, fiction, Sleep, Fiction, general

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