Books like The Virgin in the Garden
A. S. Byatt
The Virgin in the Garden is 432 pages, about 7 hours 55 minutes at 250 words a minute.
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A Painted House 8.2 h 
Safe Haven 6.9 h 
My Life Is a Joke 6.3 h 
The Sins of the Father 7.3 h 
The Things We Cannot Say 7.9 h Tell It to the Bees 6.3 h 
Cometh the Hour 9.7 h Bar height shows length. Estimated at 250 words a minute.