How long does it take to read The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle?
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami takes about 11 hours 35 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 11 hours 35 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1997. 632 pages, about 173,800 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 19 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 35 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 15 minutes |
The page count is the median across 34 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Japan’s most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with this heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets of World War II.
Subjects: literary fiction, contemporary fantasy, psychological fiction, parapsychology, fate and fatalism, Fiction
