How long does it take to read The Story and Its Writer -- Ninth Edition?
Ann Charters, Chinua Achebe, Margaret Atwood, Ambrose Bierce, Jorge Luis Borges, Ray Bradbury, Anton Chekhov, Kate Chopin, Mark Twain, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gabriel García Márquez, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Shirley Jackson, James Joyce, Jack London, Herman Melville, Alice Munro, Haruki Murakami, Vladimir Nabokov, Edgar Allan Poe, Annie Proulx, Philip Roth, John Steinbeck, Alice Walker, Edith Wharton, Richard Wright, Albert Camus
The Story and Its Writer -- Ninth Edition by Ann Charters, Chinua Achebe, Margaret Atwood, Ambrose Bierce, Jorge Luis Borges, Ray Bradbury, Anton Chekhov, Kate Chopin, Mark Twain, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gabriel García Márquez, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Shirley Jackson, James Joyce, Jack London, Herman Melville, Alice Munro, Haruki Murakami, Vladimir Nabokov, Edgar Allan Poe, Annie Proulx, Philip Roth, John Steinbeck, Alice Walker, Edith Wharton, Richard Wright, Albert Camus takes about 32 hours 33 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 32 hours 33 minutes
A long haul
First published 2015. 1,775 pages, about 488,125 words.
66 days (about 10 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 54 hours 14 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 32 hours 33 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 20 hours 20 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Part One: Stories -- Chinua Achebe / Civil Peace -- Sherman Alexie / The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven -- Isabelle Allende / An Act of Vengeance -- Sherwood Anderson / Hands -- Margaret Atwood / Happy Endings -- Isaac Babel / My First Goose -- James Baldwin / Sonny's Blues --Toni Cade Bambara / The Lesson -- Russell Banks / Black Man and White Woman in Dark Green Rowboat -- Lynda Barry / San Francisco [graphic story] -- Donald Barthelme / At the Tolstoy Museum -- Ann Beattie / Janus -- Alison Bechdel / From Fun Home: "Old Father, Old Artificer" [graphic story] -- Ambrose Bierce / Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge -- Roberto Bolano / Jim -- Jorge Luis Borges / The South -- Tadeusz Borowski / This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen -- T. Coraghessan Boyle / Birnam Wood -- Ray Bradbury / August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains -- Albert Camus / The Guest -- Alejo Carpentier / Journey to The Seed -- Angela Carter / The Kiss -- Raymond Carver / Cathedral -- Raymond Carver / A Small, Good Thing -- Raymond Carver / What We Talk About When We Talk About Love --Willa Cather / Paul's Case -- John Cheever / The Swimmer -- Anton Chekhov / The Darling -- Anton Chekhov / The Lady with the Little Dog -- Kate Chopin / Désirée's Baby Kate Chopin / The Story of an Hour Sandra Cisneros / Barbie-Q -- Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) / Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County -- Joseph Conrad / Heart of Darkness -- Julio Cortázar / Axolotl -- Stephen Crane / The Open Boat -- Edwidge Danticat / Night Women -- Lydia Davis / Blind Date -- Junot Díaz / How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or Halfie -- Edith Maud Eaton (Sui Sin Far) / The Story of One White Woman Who Married a Chinese -- Edith Maud Eaton (Sui Sin Far) / Her Chinese Husband -- Larry Eigner / Act -- Ralph Ellison / Battle Royal -- Nathan Englander / What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank -- Louise Erdrich / The Red Convertible -- William Faulkner / A Rose for Emily William Faulkner / That…
Subjects: American Horror tales, Children's fiction, Crime, Crime fiction, Crime in fiction, Delitos
