Books like The Lives of the Great Composers
Harold C. Schonberg
The Lives of the Great Composers is 588 pages, about 10 hours 47 minutes at 250 words a minute.
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How long each takes
Words Without Music 7.9 h 
Mozart 7.4 h 
I'm Your Man 10.7 h 
Beethoven 4.5 h 
Beethoven 7.3 h 
Life Is What You Make It 4.7 h 
The Autobiography of Malcolm X 8.5 h 
Correspondence 5.2 h 
An Autobiography 7.7 h 
A Distant Mirror 12.9 h 
Che Guevara 13.4 h The Lost Steps 5.2 h Bar height shows length. Estimated at 250 words a minute.