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How long does it take to read The Mouse on the Mile?

Stephen King

The Mouse on the Mile by Stephen King takes about 1 hour 41 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

Book 2 of The Green Mile

Previous: The Two Dead Girls Next: Coffey's Hands

About 1 hour 41 minutes

An evening's read

First published 1996. 92 pages, about 25,300 words.

4 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 2 hours 49 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 1 hour 41 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 1 hour 3 minutes

The page count is the median across 16 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

The Green Mile #2 The story continues with the addition of two new characters, one a new death row inmate--William "Wild Bill" Wharton. The other, a mouse, called Steamboat Willy by the guards who first noticed him and later Mr. Jingles by Eduard Delacroix, one of the death row inmates who takes in the mouse and makes him his pet.

Subjects: American Horror tales, mice, prisons, death row inmates, fiction, Serialized fiction

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