ShelfLook
Tools About
Cover of Their Eyes Were Watching God

How long does it take to read Their Eyes Were Watching God?

Zora Neale Hurston

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston takes about 4 hours 14 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 4 hours 14 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1937. 231 pages, about 63,525 words.

9 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 7 hours 4 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 4 hours 14 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 2 hours 39 minutes

The page count is the median across 66 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) is a classic Harlem Renaissance novel by American writer Zora Neale Hurston. The novel follows Janie Crawford as she recounts the story of her life as she journeys from a naive teenager to a woman in control of her destiny.

Subjects: African American women, Fiction, Psychology, Self-realization, Florida, fiction, African americans, fiction

More by Zora Neale Hurston

Books like this

Popular books of similar length