How long does it take to read The Lovely Bones?
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold takes about 6 hours 24 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 24 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2000. 349 pages, about 95,975 words. Written for young adults.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 40 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 24 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours |
The page count is the median across 88 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Susie Salmon is a fourteen-year-old girl in Norristown, Pennsylvania, in 1973 when a neighbor lures her into an underground hideout he has built in a field and murders her. From her own private heaven, she narrates what follows on earth. Her parents, her sister Lindsey, her younger brother Buckley and her classmates each cope with the loss in their own way, while Susie observes them, longs for the everyday life she has lost, and tries to come to terms with her death.
This summary was written by AI and checked by a second AI model. How these are chosen.
Content warnings (AI-checked, may be incomplete)
- violence
- sexual content
- death of a child
- abuse
Subjects: Murder, Psychological fiction, Teenage girls, Familias, Muchachas adolescentes, Novela psicológica
