Brave New World
At your speed≈ 6½ hrs
Pages332
Audiobook≈ 11 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.
332 pages works out to roughly 100,000 words. At an average 250 words a minute that is 6½ hrs — a weekend's reading.
Readers on Hardcover rate it 3.92 out of 5, from 4,131 ratings.
Worth-it score 6.3/10 — Worth it for some readers. Readers 6.4 (Hardcover's 3.92★ from 4,131 ratings) − length 0.1 = 6.3. How the score works →
How long does it take to read Brave New World?
Brave New World is 332 pages, or roughly 100,000 words. How long that takes depends on how fast you read:
| Your pace | Words per minute | Time to finish |
|---|---|---|
| Slow | 175 | 9½ hrs |
| Average | 250 | 6½ hrs |
| Fast | 400 | 4 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 11 hrs — an estimate from the word count, since narrators vary.
Common questions
- How long does it take to read Brave New World?
- About 6½ hrs at an average reading speed of 250 words per minute. Brave New World runs 332 pages, roughly 100,000 words — so at a slower 175 wpm it is nearer 9½ hrs, and at 400 wpm closer to 4 hrs.
- How many pages is Brave New World?
- 332 pages, which is about 100,000 words and 6½ hrs of reading. Editions vary, so we use the figure two of our sources agree on.
- Is Brave New World worth reading?
- We score it 6.3 out of 10 for the time it takes — worth it for some readers. Readers on Hardcover rate it 3.92 out of 5 from 4,131 ratings, which counts for 6.4; at about 6½ hrs at an average pace it gives back 0.1 for its length.
- How long is the Brave New World audiobook?
- About 11 hrs, estimated from the 100,000 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
"Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order–all at the cost of our freedom, full…
humanity, and perhaps also our souls. “A genius [who] who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine” (The New Yorker), Huxley was a man of incomparable talents: equally an artist, a spiritual seeker, and one of history’s keenest observers of human nature and civilization. Brave New World, his masterpiece, has enthralled and terrified millions of readers, and retains its urgent relevance to this day as both a warning to be heeded as we head into tomorrow and as thought-provoking, satisfying work of literature."-- Provided by Amazon
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