How long does it take to read The Time Traveler's Wife?
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger takes about 10 hours 1 minute to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 1 minute
A week or two of reading
First published 2003. 546 pages, about 150,150 words.
21 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 41 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 1 minute |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 15 minutes |
The page count is the median across 45 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Audrey Niffenegger's innovative debut, The Time Traveler's Wife, is the story of Clare, a beautiful art student, and Henry, an adventuresome librarian, who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-three and Henry thirty-one. Impossible but true, because Henry is one of the first people diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder: periodically his genetic clock resets and he finds himself misplaced in time, pulled to moments of emotional gravity in his life, past and future. His disappearances are spontaneous, his experiences unpredictable, alternately harrowing and amusing.
Subjects: mutants, love, death, amputation, sex, time
