How many pages is The House on Mango Street?

110 pages, which is about 33,000 words and 2 hrs of reading. Editions vary, so we use the figure two of our sources agree on.

How long is The House on Mango Street audiobook?

About 3½ hrs, estimated from the 33,000 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 House on Mango Street

Name: The House on Mango Street
Author: Sandra Cisneros

Sandra Cisneros

2 hrsto read

5.8worth it

At your speed≈ 2 hrs

Pages110

Audiobook≈ 3½ hrs

Times shown for 250 words a minute (average)

110 pages works out to roughly 33,000 words. At an average 250 words a minute that is 2 hrs — a day's reading.

Readers on Hardcover rate it 3.63 out of 5, from 308 ratings.

Worth-it score 5.8/10 — Worth it for some readers. Readers 5.3 (Hardcover's 3.63★ from 308 ratings) + length 0.5 = 5.8. How the score works →

How long does it take to read The House on Mango Street?

The House on Mango Street is 110 pages, or roughly 33,000 words. How long that takes depends on how fast you read:

Estimated reading time for The House on Mango Street at three reading speeds.
Your pace	Words per minute	Time to finish
Slow	175	3 hrs
Average	250	2 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 3½ hrs — an estimate from the word count, since narrators vary.

Common questions

How long does it take to read The House on Mango Street?: About 2 hrs at an average reading speed of 250 words per minute. The House on Mango Street runs 110 pages, roughly 33,000 words — so at a slower 175 wpm it is nearer 3 hrs, and at 400 wpm closer to 1½ hrs.
How many pages is The House on Mango Street?: 110 pages, which is about 33,000 words and 2 hrs of reading. Editions vary, so we use the figure two of our sources agree on.
Is The House on Mango Street worth reading?: We score it 5.8 out of 10 for the time it takes — worth it for some readers. Readers on Hardcover rate it 3.63 out of 5 from 308 ratings, which counts for 5.3; at about 2 hrs at an average pace it earns +0.5 for being short.
How long is The House on Mango Street audiobook?: About 3½ hrs, estimated from the 33,000 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 House on Mango Street is one of the most cherished novels of the last fifty years. Readers from all walks of life have fallen for the voice of Esperanza Cordero, growing up in Chicago and inventing for herself who and what she will become. “In English my name means hope,” she says. “In Spanish it means too many letters.…

It means sadness, it means waiting." Told in a series of vignettes—sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes joyous—Cisneros’s masterpiece is a classic story of childhood and self-discovery and one of the greatest neighborhood novels of all time. Like Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street or Toni Morrison’s Sula, it makes a world through people and their voices, and it does so in language that is poetic and direct. This gorgeous coming-of-age novel is a celebration of the power of telling one’s story and of being proud of where you're from.

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