How many pages is The Color Purple?

288 pages, which is about 86,000 words and 6 hrs of reading. Editions vary, so we use the figure two of our sources agree on.

Is The Color Purple worth reading?

We score it 7.5 out of 10 for the time it takes — worth the time. Readers on Hardcover rate it 4.16 out of 5 from 743 ratings, which counts for 7.5; at about 6 hrs at an average pace its length neither adds nor takes away.

How long is The Color Purple audiobook?

About 9½ hrs, estimated from the 86,000 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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The Color Purple

Name: The Color Purple
Author: Alice Walker

Alice Walker

6 hrsto read

7.5worth it

At your speed≈ 6 hrs

Pages288

Audiobook≈ 9½ hrs

Times shown for 250 words a minute (average)

288 pages works out to roughly 86,000 words. At an average 250 words a minute that is 6 hrs — a weekend's reading.

Readers on Hardcover rate it 4.16 out of 5, from 743 ratings.

Worth-it score 7.5/10 — Worth the time. Readers 7.5 (Hardcover's 4.16★ from 743 ratings) + length 0.0 = 7.5. How the score works →

How long does it take to read The Color Purple?

The Color Purple is 288 pages, or roughly 86,000 words. How long that takes depends on how fast you read:

Estimated reading time for The Color Purple at three reading speeds.
Your pace	Words per minute	Time to finish
Slow	175	8 hrs
Average	250	6 hrs
Fast	400	3½ 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 9½ hrs — an estimate from the word count, since narrators vary.

Common questions

How long does it take to read The Color Purple?: About 6 hrs at an average reading speed of 250 words per minute. The Color Purple runs 288 pages, roughly 86,000 words — so at a slower 175 wpm it is nearer 8 hrs, and at 400 wpm closer to 3½ hrs.
How many pages is The Color Purple?: 288 pages, which is about 86,000 words and 6 hrs of reading. Editions vary, so we use the figure two of our sources agree on.
Is The Color Purple worth reading?: We score it 7.5 out of 10 for the time it takes — worth the time. Readers on Hardcover rate it 4.16 out of 5 from 743 ratings, which counts for 7.5; at about 6 hrs at an average pace its length neither adds nor takes away.
How long is The Color Purple audiobook?: About 9½ hrs, estimated from the 86,000 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

The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker which won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction. The novel has been the frequent target of censors and appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2000–2009 at number…

seventeenth because of the sometimes explicit content, particularly in terms of violence. In 2003, the book was listed on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's "best-loved novels." ---------- Also contained in: - [The Third Life of Grange Copeland / Meridian / The Color Purple][1] [1]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL18025207W/The_Third_Life_of_Grange_Copeland_Meridian_The_Color_Purple

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