How long does it take to read The Obelisk Gate?
The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin takes about 8 hours 8 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 2 of The Broken Earth
Previous: The Fifth Season Next: The Stone Sky
About 8 hours 8 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2016. 444 pages, about 122,100 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 34 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 8 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 5 minutes |
The page count is the median across 14 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: Mothers and daughters, End of the world, Fiction, Fiction, fantasy, epic, Fiction, fantasy, general, Hugo Award Winner
