How long does it take to read The Searchers?
Alan Le May
The Searchers by Alan Le May takes about 6 hours 6 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 6 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1954. 333 pages, about 91,575 words.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 11 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 6 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 49 minutes |
The page count is the median across 22 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In this great American masterpiece, which served as the basis for the classic John Wayne film, two men with very different agendas push their endurance beyond all faith and hope to find a little girl captured by the Comanche.
Subjects: Fiction, Frontier and pioneer life, Fiction, westerns, Fiction, historical, general, Indians of north america, fiction, Texas, fiction
