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How long does it take to read The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue?

V. E. Schwab

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab takes about 9 hours 14 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 9 hours 14 minutes

A week or two of reading

First published 2015. 504 pages, about 138,600 words.

19 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 15 hours 24 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 9 hours 14 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 5 hours 47 minutes

The page count is the median across 34 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world. But everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore and he remembers her name.

Content warnings (AI-checked, may be incomplete)
  • suicide

How these are chosen

Subjects: Fiction, fantasy, historical, LGBTQ science fiction & fantasy, Memory, Fiction, Immortalism, Deals

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