How long does it take to read The Lincoln Highway?
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles takes about 10 hours 41 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 41 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2021. 583 pages, about 160,325 words. Written for children.
22 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 17 hours 49 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 41 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 41 minutes |
The page count is the median across 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden's car. Together, they have hatched an altogether different plan for Emmett's future, one that will take them all on a fateful journey in the opposite direction-to the City of New York. Spanning just ten days and told from multiple points of view, Towles's third novel will satisfy fans of his multi-layered literary styling while providing them an array of new and richly imagined settings, characters, and themes"--
Subjects: Brothers, Fiction, Escapes, Juvenile work farms
