Books like In the Skin of a Lion
Michael Ondaatje
In the Skin of a Lion is 245 pages, about 4 hours 30 minutes at 250 words a minute.
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How long each takes
Blood Price 5.0 h 
Half of a Yellow Sun 9.2 h 
The Plague 5.1 h 
Ceremony 4.8 h 
The Fall 2.7 h 
Madame Bovary 6.5 h 
The Witches of Eastwick 6.1 h 
Cutting for Stone 12.0 h 
The Way the Crow Flies 14.2 h 
Factoring Humanity 6.2 h 
The Stone Diaries 6.6 h 
Blood Trail 5.6 h Bar height shows length. Estimated at 250 words a minute.