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The Renoir Girls

Catherine Ostler

At your speed≈ 8½ hrs

Pages432

Audiobook≈ 14½ hrs

Times shown for 250 words a minute (average)

432 pages works out to roughly 130,000 words. At an average 250 words a minute that is 8½ hrs — a weekend's reading.

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How long does it take to read The Renoir Girls?

The Renoir Girls is 432 pages, or roughly 130,000 words. How long that takes depends on how fast you read:

Estimated reading time for The Renoir Girls at three reading speeds.
Your paceWords per minuteTime to finish
Slow17512½ hrs
Average2508½ hrs
Fast4005½ 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 14½ hrs — an estimate from the word count, since narrators vary.

Common questions

How long does it take to read The Renoir Girls?
About 8½ hrs at an average reading speed of 250 words per minute. The Renoir Girls runs 432 pages, roughly 130,000 words — so at a slower 175 wpm it is nearer 12½ hrs, and at 400 wpm closer to 5½ hrs.
How many pages is The Renoir Girls?
432 pages, which is about 130,000 words and 8½ hrs of reading. Editions vary, so treat it as a typical edition's length.
Is The Renoir Girls worth reading?
What we can tell you for certain is the cost: 432 pages and about 8½ hrs of your time, or 5½ hrs if you read quickly. Whether that is worth it depends on the hours you have.
How long is The Renoir Girls audiobook?
About 14½ hrs, estimated from the 130,000 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

"Three sisters, the daughters of a prominent French Jewish family, all painted as children by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. In the turbulent years from the Belle Epoque to World War II, one would marry an English aristocrat and escape; one would become a collaborator with the Nazis; one would die in Auschwitz.…

This is the remarkable hidden history of the lives behind Renoir's beguiling portraits.

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