To Kill a Mockingbird
At your speed≈ 6½ hrs
Pages320
Audiobook≈ 10½ hrs
320 pages works out to roughly 96,000 words. At an average 250 words a minute that is 6½ hrs — a weekend's reading.
Readers on Hardcover rate it 4.17 out of 5, from 5,143 ratings.
How long does it take to read To Kill a Mockingbird?
To Kill a Mockingbird is 320 pages, or roughly 96,000 words. How long that takes depends on how fast you read:
| Your pace | Words per minute | Time to finish |
|---|---|---|
| Slow | 175 | 9 hrs |
| Average | 250 | 6½ hrs |
| Fast | 400 | 4 hrs |
Estimated at about 300 words per page. Most adults read between 200 and 300 words a minute — use the reading-speed control to set your own pace and every time on the site adjusts.
Every reading time on the site updates to your pace. Page counts are an estimate, so treat the hours as a good guide, not a stopwatch.
Common questions
- How long does it take to read To Kill a Mockingbird?
- About 6½ hrs at an average reading speed of 250 words per minute. To Kill a Mockingbird runs 320 pages, roughly 96,000 words — so at a slower 175 wpm it is nearer 9 hrs, and at 400 wpm closer to 4 hrs.
- How many pages is To Kill a Mockingbird?
- 320 pages, which is about 96,000 words and 6½ hrs of reading. Editions vary, so we take the figure two of our three sources agree on.
- Is To Kill a Mockingbird worth reading?
- Readers on Hardcover rate it 4.17 out of 5, from 5,143 ratings. What we can tell you for certain is the cost: 320 pages and about 6½ hrs of your time, or 4 hrs if you read quickly. Whether that is worth it depends on the hours you have.
- How long is the To Kill a Mockingbird audiobook?
- About 10½ hrs, estimated from the 96,000 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 unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it. "To Kill A Mockingbird" became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960.…
It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film, also a classic. Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, "To Kill A Mockingbird" takes readers to the roots of human behavior - to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos. Now with over 18 million copies in print and translated into forty languages, this regional story by a young Alabama woman claims universal appeal. Harper Lee always considered her book to be a simple love story. Today it is regarded as a masterpiece of American literature.
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