How long does it take to read The Warmth of Other Suns?
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson takes about 11 hours 39 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 11 hours 39 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2010. 635 pages, about 174,625 words.
24 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 19 hours 24 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 39 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 17 minutes |
The page count is the median across 13 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. She interviewed more than a thousand individuals, and gained access to new data and offical records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves. - Back cover.
Subjects: Rural-urban migration, History, African Americans, Internal Migration, Migrations, African americans, history
