How long does it take to read Wolf Hall?
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel takes about 11 hours 58 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Wolf Hall
Next: Bring Up the Bodies
About 11 hours 58 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2009. 653 pages, about 179,575 words.
24 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 19 hours 57 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 58 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 29 minutes |
The page count is the median across 43 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Wolf Hall (2009) is a historical novel by English author Hilary Mantel, published by Fourth Estate, named after the Seymour family's seat of Wolfhall, or Wulfhall, in Wiltshire. Set in the period from 1500 to 1535, Wolf Hall is a sympathetic fictionalised biography documenting the rapid rise to power of Thomas Cromwell in the court of Henry VIII through to the death of Sir Thomas More. The novel won both the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2012, The Observer named it as one of "The 10 best historical novels". The book is the first in a trilogy; the sequel Bring Up the Bodies was published in 2012. The last book in the trilogy is The Mirror and the Light (2020), which covers the last four years of Cromwell's life.
Subjects: Biographical fiction, Fiction, History, Man Booker Prize Winner, Historical Fiction, Fictional Works
