Blockers
At your speed≈ 5 hrs
Pages256
Audiobook≈ 8½ hrs
Every reading time on the site updates to your pace. Page counts are an estimate, so treat the hours as a good guide, not a stopwatch.
256 pages works out to roughly 77,000 words. At an average 250 words a minute that is 5 hrs — a weekend's reading.
Only 1 reader has rated it on Hardcover so far — too few to tell you much either way.
No Worth-it score yet. Too new to score — fewer than 10 readers have rated it on Hardcover so far. How the score works →
How long does it take to read Blockers?
Blockers is 256 pages, or roughly 77,000 words. How long that takes depends on how fast you read:
| 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 Blockers?
- About 5 hrs at an average reading speed of 250 words per minute. Blockers 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 Blockers?
- 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 Blockers worth reading?
- Only 1 reader has rated it on Hardcover so far — too few to tell you much either way. What we can tell you for certain is the cost: 256 pages and about 5 hrs of your time, or 3 hrs if you read quickly. Whether that is worth it depends on the hours you have.
- How long is the Blockers 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
Blockers. It wasn’t a compliment. In the new Washington, it was the worst thing you could be―especially if you worked in the federal government and wanted to keep your job.…
A Blocker was a holdover, an impediment, someone who didn't get the message―and, most of all, someone who didn't belong. Michael Lewis found six of them. Blockers is the story of people who believed they had a calling, who were convinced they were doing something the country couldn’t do without, and then discovered they were no longer wanted. One kept Americans’ most sensitive tax data out of the wrong hands and another made sure that politicians and civil servants played by the rules. One figured out how to stop wildfires from destroying suburban neighborhoods, another helped uncover the mysteries of cystic fibrosis. There was also a security guard. It should come as no surprise that the writer who made subprime mortgages gripping (The Big Short) and who turned baseball statistics into poetry (Moneyball) could transform the first two years of the second Trump administration into a thriller about federal employees. But he does. And he does something else. He puts before us a clear question: If these public servants can’t survive in government today, then what does that say about us?
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