How long does it take to read The Secret Commonwealth?
The Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman takes about 12 hours 46 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 2 of The Book of Dust
Previous: La Belle Sauvage Next: The Rose Field
About 12 hours 46 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2019. 696 pages, about 191,400 words. Written for young adults.
26 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 21 hours 16 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 12 hours 46 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 59 minutes |
The page count is the median across 13 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
LYRA SILVERTONGUE thought her adventuring days were long over. Now a twenty-year-old undergraduate at St. Sophia's College, she could almost begin to doubt that she'd once traveled to the world of the dead were it not for the painful separation from her daemon, Pantalaimon. But intrigue is swirling around Lyra once more. Pantalaimon witnesses a brutal murder, and the dying man entrusts them with secrets that carry shocking echoes of their past. They learn of a city haunted by daemons, and of a desert rose said to reveal the nature of Dust. Even these small scraps of knowledge are dangerous. Lyra is being watched and followed--and inexorably drawn back into a battle she thought she'd left behind. On the run, she seeks refuge with the gyptians, and finds a surprising new ally in Malcolm Polstead. But hers aren't the kind of troubles you can hide from. And the journey in front of her is one Lyra must navigate alone if she is to emerge whole. This description comes from the publisher. The Secret Commonwealth is the second volume of The Book of Dust; this is the sequel series to the His Dark Materials series, the first of which is The Golden Compass or Northern Lights.
Subjects: Children's fiction, Young adult fiction, fantasy, epic, Lyra Belacqua (Fictitious character), Juvenile fiction, College students, Secrecy
