How long does it take to read The World According to Garp?
The World According to Garp by John Irving takes about 10 hours 25 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 25 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1979. 568 pages, about 156,200 words.
21 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 17 hours 21 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 25 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 31 minutes |
The page count is the median across 17 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: Mothers and sons, fiction, Authors, fiction, Fiction, humorous, general, Fiction, coming of age
