One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
At your speed≈ 6½ hrs
Pages336
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.
336 pages works out to roughly 101,000 words. At an average 250 words a minute that is 6½ hrs — a weekend's reading.
Readers on Hardcover rate it 4.15 out of 5, from 962 ratings.
Worth-it score 7.4/10 — Worth the time. Readers 7.5 (Hardcover's 4.15★ from 962 ratings) − length 0.1 = 7.4. How the score works →
How long does it take to read One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is 336 pages, or roughly 101,000 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 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?
- About 6½ hrs at an average reading speed of 250 words per minute. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest runs 336 pages, roughly 101,000 words — so at a slower 175 wpm it is nearer 9½ hrs, and at 400 wpm closer to 4 hrs.
- How many pages is One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?
- 336 pages, which is about 101,000 words and 6½ hrs of reading. Editions vary, so we use the figure two of our sources agree on.
- Is One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest worth reading?
- We score it 7.4 out of 10 for the time it takes — worth the time. Readers on Hardcover rate it 4.15 out of 5 from 962 ratings, which counts for 7.5; at about 6½ hrs at an average pace it gives back 0.1 for its length.
- How long is the One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest audiobook?
- About 11 hrs, estimated from the 101,000 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
In this classic novel, Ken Kesey’s hero is Randle Patrick McMurphy, a boisterous, brawling, fun-loving rebel who swaggers into the world of a mental hospital and takes over. A lusty, life-affirming fighter, McMurphy rallies the other patients around him by challenging the dictatorship of Nurse Ratched.…
He promotes gambling in the ward, smuggles in wine and women, and openly defies the rules at every turn. But this defiance, which starts as a sport, soon develops into a grim struggle, an all-out war between two relentless opponents: Nurse Ratched, backed by the full power of authority, and McMurphy, who has only his own indomitable will. What happens when Nurse Ratched uses her ultimate weapon against McMurphy provides the story’s shocking climax.
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