How many pages is The Great Gatsby?

About 180 pages, though editions of a book this old vary a great deal — which is why its reading time comes from the complete text instead: 48,467 words, about 3 hrs of reading at an average pace.

How long is The Great Gatsby audiobook?

About 5½ hrs, estimated from the 48,000 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 Great Gatsby

Name: The Great Gatsby
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald

3 hrsto read

5.9worth it

At your speed≈ 3 hrs

Pages180

Audiobook≈ 5½ hrs

Times shown for 250 words a minute (average)

The complete text runs to 48,467 words, counted word for word. At an average 250 words a minute that is 3 hrs — a day's reading.

Readers on Hardcover rate it 3.71 out of 5, from 5,165 ratings.

Worth-it score 5.9/10 — Worth it for some readers. Readers 5.5 (Hardcover's 3.71★ from 5,165 ratings) + length 0.4 = 5.9. How the score works →

How long does it take to read The Great Gatsby?

The complete text of The Great Gatsby runs to 48,467 words — about 180 pages in the edition we list. How long that takes depends on how fast you read:

Estimated reading time for The Great Gatsby at three reading speeds.
Your pace	Words per minute	Time to finish
Slow	175	4½ hrs
Average	250	3 hrs
Fast	400	2 hrs

Counted word for word from the complete public-domain text on Project Gutenberg, so these times don't depend on any one edition's page count. 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 5½ hrs — an estimate from the word count, since narrators vary.

Common questions

How long does it take to read The Great Gatsby?: About 3 hrs at an average reading speed of 250 words per minute. The complete text of The Great Gatsby runs to 48,467 words — so at a slower 175 wpm it is nearer 4½ hrs, and at 400 wpm closer to 2 hrs.
How many pages is The Great Gatsby?: About 180 pages, though editions of a book this old vary a great deal — which is why its reading time comes from the complete text instead: 48,467 words, about 3 hrs of reading at an average pace.
Is The Great Gatsby worth reading?: We score it 5.9 out of 10 for the time it takes — worth it for some readers. Readers on Hardcover rate it 3.71 out of 5 from 5,165 ratings, which counts for 5.5; at about 3 hrs at an average pace it earns +0.4 for being short.
How long is The Great Gatsby audiobook?: About 5½ hrs, estimated from the 48,000 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

Extravagant rumors abound of a man named Jay Gatsby who has newly arrived to the coastline of a section of Long Island known colloquially as West Egg. Long into the night, the mysterious Gatsby threw lavish parties at his sprawling estate, but when alone, Gatsby could be found staring longingly at a solitary green light across the dark…

water. For all Gatsby has attained in his life, that green light represents all that he lost. The greatest story to encapsulate the roaring twenties, The Great Gatsby follows the eventful lives of the denizens from East and West Egg in this timeless classic of American literature.

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