How long does it take to read The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum?
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum by Heinrich Böll takes about 2 hours 34 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 34 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1974. 140 pages, about 38,500 words.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 17 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 34 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 36 minutes |
The page count is the median across 62 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: Fiction, Tabloid newspapers, Young women, Sensationalism in journalism, Journalists, Violence
