How long does it take to read Utopia Avenue?
Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell takes about 11 hours 6 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 11 hours 6 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2020. 605 pages, about 166,375 words.
23 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 18 hours 29 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 6 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 56 minutes |
The page count is the median across 15 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The long-awaited new novel from the bestselling, prize-winning author of Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks. Utopia Avenue is the strangest British band you’ve never heard of. Emerging from London’s psychedelic scene in 1967 and fronted by folk singer Elf Holloway, guitar demigod Jasper de Zoet, and blues bassist Dean Moss, Utopia Avenue released only two LPs during its brief, blazing journey from the clubs of Soho and drafty ballrooms to Top of the Pops and the cusp of chart success, and on to glory in Amsterdam, prison in Rome, and a fateful American fortnight in the autumn of 1968. David Mitchell’s captivating new novel tells the unexpurgated story of Utopia Avenue; of riots in the streets and revolutions in the head; of drugs, thugs, madness, love, sex, death, art; of the families we choose and the ones we don’t; of fame’s Faustian pact and stardom’s wobbly ladder. Can we change the world in turbulent times, or does the world change us?
Subjects: Fiction, science fiction, general, Fiction, dystopian, Musicians, fiction, Musicians, Fiction, Bands (Music)
