How long does it take to read The Knife of Never Letting Go?
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness, Nick Podehl takes about 9 hours 6 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Chaos Walking
Next: The Ask and the Answer
About 9 hours 6 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2008. 496 pages, about 136,400 words. Written for children.
19 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 9 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 6 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 41 minutes |
The page count is the median across 16 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
An unflinching novel about the impossible choices of growing up, by an award-winning writer.Imagine you're the only boy in a town of men. And you can hear everything they think. And they can hear everything you think. Imagine you don't fit in with their plans... Todd Hewitt is just one month away from the birthday that will make him a man. But his town has been keeping secrets from him. Secrets that are going to force him to run...
Subjects: Fiction, Human-animal communication, Science fiction, Social problems, Telepathy, Space colonies
