How long does it take to read The Thorn Birds?
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough takes about 10 hours 59 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 59 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1977. 599 pages, about 164,725 words.
22 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 18 hours 18 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 59 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 52 minutes |
The page count is the median across 79 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Thorn Birds is a 1977 best-selling novel by Australian author Colleen McCullough. Set primarily on Drogheda – a fictional sheep station in the Australian Outback named after Drogheda, Ireland – the story focuses on the Cleary family and spans the years 1915 to 1969.
Subjects: Fiction, Romance, Clergy, Catholic Church, Catholics, Clergy in fiction, Catholics in fiction
