Books like The Town and the City
Jack Kerouac
The Town and the City is 499 pages, about 9 hours 9 minutes at 250 words a minute.
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The Portable Beat Reader 11.8 h 
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks 3.9 h 
Kerouac 7.6 h 
Charles Bukowski 5.7 h 
Hard Times 6.0 h 
Child of God 3.6 h 
To Have and Have Not 4.8 h Bar height shows length. Estimated at 250 words a minute.