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How long does it take to read The Snowman?

Jo Nesbø

The Snowman by Jo Nesbø takes about 9 hours 19 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

Book 7 of Harry Hole series

Previous: The Redeemer Next: The Leopard

About 9 hours 19 minutes

A week or two of reading

First published 2007. 508 pages, about 139,700 words.

19 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 15 hours 31 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 9 hours 19 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 5 hours 49 minutes

The page count is the median across 14 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

"In Oslo, after the first snow of the season has fallen, a woman disappears, and a sinister snowman is left in her wake. As irascible detective Harry Hole realizes that this is only one of multiple disappearances, he begins to think a serial killer may be at work--and may be drawing in Hole personally and intentionally"--

Subjects: Harry Hole (Fictitious character), Police, Fiction, Women, Crimes against, Serial murder investigation

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