READING TIMES · 100 CLASSIC BOOKS
How long does it take to read the classics?
Reading times for books that are often assigned in school, counted word for word from the text Parlor opens, at an average adult reading speed of 260 words a minute. Each book’s page has the time for every chapter and a daily plan.
Under 3 hours 13
An afternoon or two.
- The Yellow WallpaperCharlotte Perkins Gilman · 189225 min
- Alice's Adventures in WonderlandLewis Carroll · 18651 h 40 min
- A Christmas CarolCharles Dickens · 18431 h 50 min
- The Call of the WildJack London · 19032 h
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick DouglassFrederick Douglass · 18452 h 20 min
- The Wonderful Wizard of OzL. Frank Baum · 19002 h 30 min
- The Adventures of PinocchioCarlo Collodi · 18832 h 35 min
- The Turn of the ScrewHenry James · 18982 h 35 min
- The Thirty-Nine StepsJohn Buchan · 19152 h 35 min
- The Island of Doctor MoreauH. G. Wells · 18962 h 45 min
- The Sign of the FourArthur Conan Doyle · 18902 h 45 min
- A Study in ScarletArthur Conan Doyle · 18872 h 45 min
- The Red Badge of CourageStephen Crane · 18953 h
3 to 8 hours 54
About a week at half an hour a day.
- Peter PanJ. M. Barrie · 19113 h
- The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald · 19253 h 5 min
- The Invisible ManH. G. Wells · 18973 h 5 min
- The Prisoner of ZendaAnthony Hope · 18943 h 25 min
- O Pioneers!Willa Cather · 19133 h 35 min
- The Mysterious Affair at StylesAgatha Christie · 19203 h 40 min
- SummerEdith Wharton · 19173 h 40 min
- The Man Who Was ThursdayG. K. Chesterton · 19083 h 40 min
- Little Lord FauntleroyFrances Hodgson Burnett · 18863 h 45 min
- The Wind in the WillowsKenneth Grahame · 19083 h 45 min
- The Hound of the BaskervillesArthur Conan Doyle · 19023 h 50 min
- The War of the WorldsH. G. Wells · 18983 h 50 min
- Around the World in Eighty DaysJules Verne · 18724 h
- Mrs. DallowayVirginia Woolf · 19254 h 5 min
- Washington SquareHenry James · 18804 h 5 min
- A Little PrincessFrances Hodgson Burnett · 19054 h 15 min
- A Room with a ViewE. M. Forster · 19084 h 20 min
- The Sun Also RisesErnest Hemingway · 19264 h 20 min
- Agnes GreyAnne Brontë · 18474 h 25 min
- The Scarlet LetterNathaniel Hawthorne · 18504 h 25 min
- The Prince and the PauperMark Twain · 18814 h 25 min
- The Adventures of Tom SawyerMark Twain · 18764 h 30 min
- CranfordElizabeth Gaskell · 18534 h 35 min
- Silas MarnerGeorge Eliot · 18614 h 35 min
- Up from SlaveryBooker T. Washington · 19014 h 45 min
- FrankensteinMary Shelley · 18184 h 50 min
- The Lost WorldArthur Conan Doyle · 19124 h 50 min
- Northanger AbbeyJane Austen · 18174 h 55 min
- The Picture of Dorian GrayOscar Wilde · 18905 h 5 min
- Fathers and SonsIvan Turgenev · 18625 h 5 min
- KidnappedRobert Louis Stevenson · 18865 h 10 min
- My ÁntoniaWilla Cather · 19185 h 10 min
- The Secret GardenFrances Hodgson Burnett · 19115 h 10 min
- King Solomon's MinesH. Rider Haggard · 18855 h 15 min
- PersuasionJane Austen · 18175 h 20 min
- The Scarlet PimpernelBaroness Orczy · 19055 h 25 min
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManJames Joyce · 19165 h 25 min
- A Passage to IndiaE. M. Forster · 19246 h 30 min
- Anne of Green GablesL. M. Montgomery · 19086 h 35 min
- Gulliver's TravelsJonathan Swift · 17266 h 35 min
- The Adventures of Sherlock HolmesArthur Conan Doyle · 18926 h 45 min
- Little MenLouisa May Alcott · 18716 h 45 min
- The Sea-WolfJack London · 19046 h 45 min
- Hard TimesCharles Dickens · 18546 h 45 min
- KimRudyard Kipling · 19016 h 50 min
- Howards EndE. M. Forster · 19107 h
- Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMark Twain · 18847 h 5 min
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's CourtMark Twain · 18897 h 20 min
- Madame BovaryGustave Flaubert · 18577 h 25 min
- Wuthering HeightsEmily Brontë · 18477 h 30 min
- Sense and SensibilityJane Austen · 18117 h 40 min
- Robinson CrusoeDaniel Defoe · 17197 h 45 min
- Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen · 18137 h 50 min
- BabbittSinclair Lewis · 19227 h 55 min
8 to 15 hours 24
Two to four weeks at half an hour a day.
- The OdysseyHomer · 8th century BCE8 h 10 min
- Lord JimJoseph Conrad · 19008 h 15 min
- The House of MirthEdith Wharton · 19058 h 20 min
- A Tale of Two CitiesCharles Dickens · 18598 h 40 min
- Far from the Madding CrowdThomas Hardy · 18748 h 50 min
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the SeasJules Verne · 18709 h 5 min
- The Last of the MohicansJames Fenimore Cooper · 18269 h 25 min
- The JungleUpton Sinclair · 19069 h 40 min
- The IliadHomer · 8th century BCE9 h 50 min
- Oliver TwistCharles Dickens · 183810 h 5 min
- Mansfield ParkJane Austen · 181410 h 15 min
- EmmaJane Austen · 181510 h 15 min
- DraculaBram Stoker · 189710 h 20 min
- Main StreetSinclair Lewis · 192010 h 40 min
- The Tenant of Wildfell HallAnne Brontë · 184810 h 40 min
- North and SouthElizabeth Gaskell · 185511 h 40 min
- Uncle Tom's CabinHarriet Beecher Stowe · 185211 h 40 min
- Great ExpectationsCharles Dickens · 186111 h 55 min
- IvanhoeWalter Scott · 181911 h 55 min
- Jane EyreCharlotte Brontë · 184711 h 55 min
- Moby-DickHerman Melville · 185113 h 25 min
- The DeerslayerJames Fenimore Cooper · 184113 h 35 min
- Adam BedeGeorge Eliot · 185913 h 50 min
- The Three MusketeersAlexandre Dumas · 184414 h 40 min
15 hours or more 9
A month or more at half an hour a day.
- Vanity FairWilliam Makepeace Thackeray · 184819 h 20 min
- The Pickwick PapersCharles Dickens · 183719 h 40 min
- MiddlemarchGeorge Eliot · 187120 h 20 min
- Nicholas NicklebyCharles Dickens · 183921 h 5 min
- Our Mutual FriendCharles Dickens · 186521 h 30 min
- Little DorritCharles Dickens · 185722 h
- Bleak HouseCharles Dickens · 185322 h 45 min
- David CopperfieldCharles Dickens · 185023 h 10 min
- The Count of Monte CristoAlexandre Dumas · 184429 h 40 min
- Adam BedeGeorge Eliot · 185913 h 50 min
- Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMark Twain · 18847 h 5 min
- The Adventures of PinocchioCarlo Collodi · 18832 h 35 min
- The Adventures of Sherlock HolmesArthur Conan Doyle · 18926 h 45 min
- The Adventures of Tom SawyerMark Twain · 18764 h 30 min
- Agnes GreyAnne Brontë · 18474 h 25 min
- Alice's Adventures in WonderlandLewis Carroll · 18651 h 40 min
- Anne of Green GablesL. M. Montgomery · 19086 h 35 min
- Around the World in Eighty DaysJules Verne · 18724 h
- BabbittSinclair Lewis · 19227 h 55 min
- Bleak HouseCharles Dickens · 185322 h 45 min
- The Call of the WildJack London · 19032 h
- A Christmas CarolCharles Dickens · 18431 h 50 min
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's CourtMark Twain · 18897 h 20 min
- The Count of Monte CristoAlexandre Dumas · 184429 h 40 min
- CranfordElizabeth Gaskell · 18534 h 35 min
- David CopperfieldCharles Dickens · 185023 h 10 min
- The DeerslayerJames Fenimore Cooper · 184113 h 35 min
- DraculaBram Stoker · 189710 h 20 min
- EmmaJane Austen · 181510 h 15 min
- Far from the Madding CrowdThomas Hardy · 18748 h 50 min
- Fathers and SonsIvan Turgenev · 18625 h 5 min
- FrankensteinMary Shelley · 18184 h 50 min
- Great ExpectationsCharles Dickens · 186111 h 55 min
- The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald · 19253 h 5 min
- Gulliver's TravelsJonathan Swift · 17266 h 35 min
- Hard TimesCharles Dickens · 18546 h 45 min
- The Hound of the BaskervillesArthur Conan Doyle · 19023 h 50 min
- The House of MirthEdith Wharton · 19058 h 20 min
- Howards EndE. M. Forster · 19107 h
- The IliadHomer · 8th century BCE9 h 50 min
- The Invisible ManH. G. Wells · 18973 h 5 min
- The Island of Doctor MoreauH. G. Wells · 18962 h 45 min
- IvanhoeWalter Scott · 181911 h 55 min
- Jane EyreCharlotte Brontë · 184711 h 55 min
- The JungleUpton Sinclair · 19069 h 40 min
- KidnappedRobert Louis Stevenson · 18865 h 10 min
- KimRudyard Kipling · 19016 h 50 min
- King Solomon's MinesH. Rider Haggard · 18855 h 15 min
- The Last of the MohicansJames Fenimore Cooper · 18269 h 25 min
- Little DorritCharles Dickens · 185722 h
- Little Lord FauntleroyFrances Hodgson Burnett · 18863 h 45 min
- Little MenLouisa May Alcott · 18716 h 45 min
- A Little PrincessFrances Hodgson Burnett · 19054 h 15 min
- Lord JimJoseph Conrad · 19008 h 15 min
- The Lost WorldArthur Conan Doyle · 19124 h 50 min
- Madame BovaryGustave Flaubert · 18577 h 25 min
- Main StreetSinclair Lewis · 192010 h 40 min
- The Man Who Was ThursdayG. K. Chesterton · 19083 h 40 min
- Mansfield ParkJane Austen · 181410 h 15 min
- MiddlemarchGeorge Eliot · 187120 h 20 min
- Moby-DickHerman Melville · 185113 h 25 min
- Mrs. DallowayVirginia Woolf · 19254 h 5 min
- My ÁntoniaWilla Cather · 19185 h 10 min
- The Mysterious Affair at StylesAgatha Christie · 19203 h 40 min
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick DouglassFrederick Douglass · 18452 h 20 min
- Nicholas NicklebyCharles Dickens · 183921 h 5 min
- North and SouthElizabeth Gaskell · 185511 h 40 min
- Northanger AbbeyJane Austen · 18174 h 55 min
- O Pioneers!Willa Cather · 19133 h 35 min
- The OdysseyHomer · 8th century BCE8 h 10 min
- Oliver TwistCharles Dickens · 183810 h 5 min
- Our Mutual FriendCharles Dickens · 186521 h 30 min
- A Passage to IndiaE. M. Forster · 19246 h 30 min
- PersuasionJane Austen · 18175 h 20 min
- Peter PanJ. M. Barrie · 19113 h
- The Pickwick PapersCharles Dickens · 183719 h 40 min
- The Picture of Dorian GrayOscar Wilde · 18905 h 5 min
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManJames Joyce · 19165 h 25 min
- Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen · 18137 h 50 min
- The Prince and the PauperMark Twain · 18814 h 25 min
- The Prisoner of ZendaAnthony Hope · 18943 h 25 min
- The Red Badge of CourageStephen Crane · 18953 h
- Robinson CrusoeDaniel Defoe · 17197 h 45 min
- A Room with a ViewE. M. Forster · 19084 h 20 min
- The Scarlet LetterNathaniel Hawthorne · 18504 h 25 min
- The Scarlet PimpernelBaroness Orczy · 19055 h 25 min
- The Sea-WolfJack London · 19046 h 45 min
- The Secret GardenFrances Hodgson Burnett · 19115 h 10 min
- Sense and SensibilityJane Austen · 18117 h 40 min
- The Sign of the FourArthur Conan Doyle · 18902 h 45 min
- Silas MarnerGeorge Eliot · 18614 h 35 min
- A Study in ScarletArthur Conan Doyle · 18872 h 45 min
- SummerEdith Wharton · 19173 h 40 min
- The Sun Also RisesErnest Hemingway · 19264 h 20 min
- A Tale of Two CitiesCharles Dickens · 18598 h 40 min
- The Tenant of Wildfell HallAnne Brontë · 184810 h 40 min
- The Thirty-Nine StepsJohn Buchan · 19152 h 35 min
- The Three MusketeersAlexandre Dumas · 184414 h 40 min
- The Turn of the ScrewHenry James · 18982 h 35 min
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the SeasJules Verne · 18709 h 5 min
- Uncle Tom's CabinHarriet Beecher Stowe · 185211 h 40 min
- Up from SlaveryBooker T. Washington · 19014 h 45 min
- Vanity FairWilliam Makepeace Thackeray · 184819 h 20 min
- The War of the WorldsH. G. Wells · 18983 h 50 min
- Washington SquareHenry James · 18804 h 5 min
- The Wind in the WillowsKenneth Grahame · 19083 h 45 min
- The Wonderful Wizard of OzL. Frank Baum · 19002 h 30 min
- Wuthering HeightsEmily Brontë · 18477 h 30 min
- The Yellow WallpaperCharlotte Perkins Gilman · 189225 min
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