How long does it take to read Under the Dome?
Under the Dome by Stephen King takes about 19 hours 41 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 19 hours 41 minutes
A long haul
First published 2009. 1,074 pages, about 295,350 words.
40 days (about 6 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 32 hours 49 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 19 hours 41 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 12 hours 18 minutes |
The page count is the median across 50 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Under the Dome is a 2009 science fiction novel by the American author, Stephen King. Under the Dome is the 58th book published by Stephen King, and it is his 48th novel. The novel focuses on a small Maine town, and tells an intricate, multi-character, alternating perspective story of how the town's inhabitants contend with the calamity of being suddenly cut off from the outside world by an impassable, invisible glass dome-like barrier that seemingly falls out of the sky, transforming the community into a domed city. ---
Subjects: Fiction, Veterans, City and town life, Good and evil, Psychological fiction, Thrillers
