How many pages is The Warmth of Other Suns?

622 pages, which is about 187,000 words and 12½ hrs of reading. Editions vary, so we take the figure two of our three sources agree on.

Is The Warmth of Other Suns worth reading?

Readers on Hardcover rate it 4.45 out of 5, from 130 ratings. What we can tell you for certain is the cost: 622 pages and about 12½ hrs of your time, or 8 hrs if you read quickly. Whether that is worth it depends on the hours you have.

How long is The Warmth of Other Suns audiobook?

About 20½ hrs, estimated from the 187,000 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 Warmth of Other Suns

Name: The Warmth of Other Suns
Author: Isabel Wilkerson

Isabel Wilkerson

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At your speed≈ 12½ hrs

Pages622

Audiobook≈ 20½ hrs

622 pages works out to roughly 187,000 words. At an average 250 words a minute that is 12½ hrs — about a week of evenings.

Readers on Hardcover rate it 4.45 out of 5, from 130 ratings.

How long does it take to read The Warmth of Other Suns?

The Warmth of Other Suns is 622 pages, or roughly 187,000 words. How long that takes depends on how fast you read:

Estimated reading time for The Warmth of Other Suns at three reading speeds.
Your pace	Words per minute	Time to finish
Slow	175	18 hrs
Average	250	12½ hrs
Fast	400	8 hrs

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How long does it take to read The Warmth of Other Suns?: About 12½ hrs at an average reading speed of 250 words per minute. The Warmth of Other Suns runs 622 pages, roughly 187,000 words — so at a slower 175 wpm it is nearer 18 hrs, and at 400 wpm closer to 8 hrs.
How many pages is The Warmth of Other Suns?: 622 pages, which is about 187,000 words and 12½ hrs of reading. Editions vary, so we take the figure two of our three sources agree on.
Is The Warmth of Other Suns worth reading?: Readers on Hardcover rate it 4.45 out of 5, from 130 ratings. What we can tell you for certain is the cost: 622 pages and about 12½ hrs of your time, or 8 hrs if you read quickly. Whether that is worth it depends on the hours you have.
How long is The Warmth of Other Suns audiobook?: About 20½ hrs, estimated from the 187,000 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 beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson presents a definitive and dramatic account of one of the great untold stories of American history: the Great Migration of six million Black citizens who fled the South for the North and West in search of a better life, from World War I to…

1970. Wilkerson tells this interwoven story through the lives of three unforgettable protagonists: Ida Mae Gladney, a sharecropper’s wife, who in 1937 fled Mississippi for Chicago; sharp and quick-tempered George Starling, who in 1945 fled Florida for Harlem, and Robert Foster, a surgeon who left Louisiana in 1953 in hopes of making it in California. Wilkerson brilliantly captures their first treacherous cross-country journeys by car and train and their new lives in colonies in the New World. The Warmth of Other Suns is a bold, remarkable, and riveting work, a superb account of an “unrecognized immigration” within our own land. Through the breadth of its narrative, the beauty of the writing, the depth of its research, and the fullness of the people and lives portrayed herein, this book is a modern classic.

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