Books like Half a Life

12 books to read next

• The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing 10.9 h
• The Sea, the Sea Iris Murdoch 9.4 h
• The Silent Patient Alex Michaelides 6.5 h
• Great Expectations Charles Dickens 8.8 h
• Antic Hay Aldous Huxley 4.7 h
• Youth Joseph Conrad 6.2 h
• Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf 2.9 h
• The Buddha of Suburbia Hanif Kureishi, Eli Hirsch 5.3 h
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson 5.6 h
• Paradise Abdulrazak Gurnah 4.7 h
• Burmese Days George Orwell 5.3 h
• 1984 Michael Dean, George Orwell 1.5 h

How long each takes

The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing 10.9 h The Sea, the Sea Iris Murdoch 9.4 h The Silent Patient Alex Michaelides 6.5 h Great Expectations Charles Dickens 8.8 h Antic Hay Aldous Huxley 4.7 h Youth Joseph Conrad 6.2 h Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf 2.9 h The Buddha of Suburbia Hanif Kureishi, Eli Hirsch 5.3 h The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson 5.6 h Paradise Abdulrazak Gurnah 4.7 h Burmese Days George Orwell 5.3 h 1984 Michael Dean, George Orwell 1.5 h

Bar height shows length. Estimated at 250 words a minute.