How many pages is A Wrinkle in Time?

256 pages, which is about 77,000 words and 5 hrs of reading. Editions vary, so we use the figure two of our sources agree on.

How long is the A Wrinkle in Time audiobook?

About 8½ hrs, estimated from the 77,000 words at a typical narration pace of 150 words a minute. Real editions vary by narrator, usually by well under an hour.

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A Wrinkle in Time

Name: A Wrinkle in Time
Author: Madeleine L'Engle

Madeleine L'Engle

5 hrsto read

5.9worth it

At your speed≈ 5 hrs

Pages256

Audiobook≈ 8½ hrs

Times shown for 250 words a minute (average)

256 pages works out to roughly 77,000 words. At an average 250 words a minute that is 5 hrs — a weekend's reading.

Readers on Hardcover rate it 3.77 out of 5, from 1,664 ratings.

Worth-it score 5.9/10 — Worth it for some readers. Readers 5.8 (Hardcover's 3.77★ from 1,664 ratings) + length 0.1 = 5.9. How the score works →

How long does it take to read A Wrinkle in Time?

A Wrinkle in Time is 256 pages, or roughly 77,000 words. How long that takes depends on how fast you read:

Estimated reading time for A Wrinkle in Time at three reading speeds.
Your pace	Words per minute	Time to finish
Slow	175	7½ hrs
Average	250	5 hrs
Fast	400	3 hrs

Estimated at about 300 words per page. Most adults read between 200 and 300 words a minute — set your own pace and every time on the site adjusts. Prefer to listen? At a typical narration pace of 150 words a minute the audiobook runs about 8½ hrs — an estimate from the word count, since narrators vary.

Common questions

How long does it take to read A Wrinkle in Time?: About 5 hrs at an average reading speed of 250 words per minute. A Wrinkle in Time runs 256 pages, roughly 77,000 words — so at a slower 175 wpm it is nearer 7½ hrs, and at 400 wpm closer to 3 hrs.
How many pages is A Wrinkle in Time?: 256 pages, which is about 77,000 words and 5 hrs of reading. Editions vary, so we use the figure two of our sources agree on.
Is A Wrinkle in Time worth reading?: We score it 5.9 out of 10 for the time it takes — worth it for some readers. Readers on Hardcover rate it 3.77 out of 5 from 1,664 ratings, which counts for 5.8; at about 5 hrs at an average pace it earns +0.1 for being short.
How long is the A Wrinkle in Time audiobook?: About 8½ hrs, estimated from the 77,000 words at a typical narration pace of 150 words a minute. Real editions vary by narrator, usually by well under an hour.

From the publisher

It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger. "Wild nights are my glory," the unearthly stranger told them. "I just got caught in a downdraft and blown off course.…

Let me sit down for a moment, and then I'll be on my way. Speaking of ways, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract." A tesseract (in case the reader doesn't know) is a wrinkle in time. To tell more would rob the reader of the enjoyment of Miss L'Engle's unusual book. A Wrinkle in Time, winner of the Newberry Medal in 1963, is the story of the adventures in space and time of Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin O'Keefe (athlete, student, and one of the most popular boys in high school). They are in search of Meg's father, a scientist who disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government on the tesseract problem.

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