How long does it take to read The Winner?
The Winner by David Baldacci takes about 9 hours 55 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 55 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1997. 541 pages, about 148,775 words.
20 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 32 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 55 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 12 minutes |
The page count is the median across 45 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
She is twenty, beautiful, dirt-poor, and hoping for a better life for her infant daughter when she is offered the gift of a lifetime, a $100 million lottery jackpot. All LuAnn Tyler has to do is change her identity and leave the U.S. forever. It’s an offer she dares to refuse…until violence forces her hand and thrusts her into a harrowing game of high-stakes, big-money subterfuge. It’s a price she won’t fully pay…until she does the unthinkable and breaks the promise that made her rich. For if LuAnn Tyler comes home, she will be pitted against the deadliest contestant of all: the chameleonlike financial mastermind who changed her life. And who can take it away at will…
Subjects: Lottery winners, Lottery winners in fiction, Fiction, Thriller, Fiction, thrillers, general, Unmarried mothers