How many pages is Night?

126 pages, which is about 38,000 words and 2½ hrs of reading. Editions vary, so we use the figure two of our sources agree on.

Is Night worth reading?

We score it 8.6 out of 10 for the time it takes — well worth the time. Readers on Hardcover rate it 4.28 out of 5 from 1,151 ratings, which counts for 8.1; at about 2½ hrs at an average pace it earns +0.5 for being short.

How long is the Night audiobook?

About 4 hrs, estimated from the 38,000 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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Night

Name: Night
Author: Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel

2½ hrsto read

8.6worth it

At your speed≈ 2½ hrs

Pages126

Audiobook≈ 4 hrs

Times shown for 250 words a minute (average)

126 pages works out to roughly 38,000 words. At an average 250 words a minute that is 2½ hrs — a day's reading.

Readers on Hardcover rate it 4.28 out of 5, from 1,151 ratings.

Worth-it score 8.6/10 — Well worth the time. Readers 8.1 (Hardcover's 4.28★ from 1,151 ratings) + length 0.5 = 8.6. How the score works →

How long does it take to read Night?

Night is 126 pages, or roughly 38,000 words. How long that takes depends on how fast you read:

Estimated reading time for Night at three reading speeds.
Your pace	Words per minute	Time to finish
Slow	175	3½ hrs
Average	250	2½ hrs
Fast	400	1½ 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 4 hrs — an estimate from the word count, since narrators vary.

Common questions

How long does it take to read Night?: About 2½ hrs at an average reading speed of 250 words per minute. Night runs 126 pages, roughly 38,000 words — so at a slower 175 wpm it is nearer 3½ hrs, and at 400 wpm closer to 1½ hrs.
How many pages is Night?: 126 pages, which is about 38,000 words and 2½ hrs of reading. Editions vary, so we use the figure two of our sources agree on.
Is Night worth reading?: We score it 8.6 out of 10 for the time it takes — well worth the time. Readers on Hardcover rate it 4.28 out of 5 from 1,151 ratings, which counts for 8.1; at about 2½ hrs at an average pace it earns +0.5 for being short.
How long is the Night audiobook?: About 4 hrs, estimated from the 38,000 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

Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent.…

And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets man's capacity for inhumanity to man. Night offers much more than a litany of the daily terrors, everyday perversions, and rampant sadism at Auschwitz and Buchenwald; it also eloquently addresses many of the philosophical as well as personal questions implicit in any serious consideration of what the Holocaust was, what it meant, and what its legacy is and will be.

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