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Exit Party

Emily St. John Mandel

At your speed≈ 6½ hrs

Pages320

Audiobook≈ 10½ hrs

Times shown for 250 words a minute (average)

320 pages works out to roughly 96,000 words. At an average 250 words a minute that is 6½ hrs — a weekend's reading.

47 readers have rated it on Hardcover so far — enough for an early score, not yet a firm one.

Worth-it score 7.5/10 — Worth the time (early). Readers 7.5 (47 early ratings on Hardcover) + length 0.0 = 7.5. How the score works →

How long does it take to read Exit Party?

Exit Party is 320 pages, or roughly 96,000 words. How long that takes depends on how fast you read:

Estimated reading time for Exit Party at three reading speeds.
Your paceWords per minuteTime to finish
Slow1759 hrs
Average2506½ hrs
Fast4004 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 10½ hrs — an estimate from the word count, since narrators vary.

Common questions

How long does it take to read Exit Party?
About 6½ hrs at an average reading speed of 250 words per minute. Exit Party runs 320 pages, roughly 96,000 words — so at a slower 175 wpm it is nearer 9 hrs, and at 400 wpm closer to 4 hrs.
How many pages is Exit Party?
320 pages, which is about 96,000 words and 6½ hrs of reading. Editions vary, and only Hardcover lists a page count for it, so treat it as approximate.
Is Exit Party worth reading?
On early ratings, we score it 7.5 out of 10 for the time it takes — worth the time. Only 47 readers have rated it on Hardcover so far, so the score leans on the library average and will move as more ratings arrive; at about 6½ hrs at an average pace its length neither adds nor takes away.
How long is the Exit Party audiobook?
About 10½ hrs, estimated from the 96,000 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

"Ari Waker and her roommate pass the gauntlet of bomb-sniffing dogs, the shanty towns, and the Red Cross tents as they walk across Silverlake to a party. The mood is ecstatic inside the apartment, people drink and dance, a woman wears a silver dress, pleated like tinfoil. And then: A shift.…

A bewildered twin, an uncanny doppelganger stumbles through the crowd and out into the night, and Kareem, the party’s host, vanishes into thin air. As Ari Waker unravels the mystery of this inexplicable night, Emily St. John Mandel unfurls a story that takes us from a future America splintered by civil war to the seaside cliffs of Greece where weapons dealers hide in an elegant resort, and from the domed city of Paris to a colony on the moon. An unforgettable literary feat, Exit Party is a novel about the price of safety, the perils of the surveillance state, a requiem for a world not unlike our own, and a breathtaking story of resilience in the face of cataclysmic change." --Provided by Amazon