How long does it take to read The Kingdom?
Arabia and the House of Sa'Ud
The Kingdom by Robert Lacey takes about 11 hours 33 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 11 hours 33 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1981. 630 pages, about 173,250 words.
24 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 19 hours 15 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 33 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 13 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Follows the line of the Saudi succession from its nineteenth-century origins to the present and chronicles the nation's ruling families' progression to an oil superpower.
Subjects: History, Geschichte, Fiction, general, Histoire
