Well I was just pondering when I thought how fast do people read books. I read the cradle series last month in under 13 days. Constantly binge reading it. I have alot of time so it didn’t seem a big deal. Then I remembered in 2019 when I first picked up WoT I followed many people who were reading for the first time or reading it and I discovered it took most of them a year or so and I read it in under 4 Months. That time I was doing my last year in college and had many exams.
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One time I was working at an art festival and didn’t have anything to do until it was time to take tents down so I read all of Stephen King’s Desperation in like seven hours. It was the mass market paperback and was around 800 pages. Yeah, I can’t read that fast anymore now I’m happy if I can do 100 pages a day
depends. i read most high fantasy like half month, but i read most contemporary 3-7 days. i remember i finished A Little Life in 5 days
In like 5th grade I reach the whole Cirque Du Freak series in 12 days. I would check out a book from the library, read the entire thing in a day, and then repeat and read the whole series in 12 days. I probably could have read them faster but the school library would only let us check out one book of a series at a time (students at the time were trying to check out all of the Harry Potter series so they didn’t have to wait to read them).
The last book I read in a single day was The Employees by Olga Ravn, but that books is about 120 pages.
I read the Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante in 10 days or so. I don’t usually read series, and if I do I space them out on purpose (I’ve read 4 Witcher novels over 4 years, spaced out), but with Ferrante I was just completely absorbed.
I literally just read The catcher in the Rye the day before yesterday and The Great Gatsby yesterday. Also read Crime and Punishment in less than a week but I took my time with it. I gotta say, all were disappointing. Where is this great literature I’ve heard of? I’m an intelligent person and I’m looking for something truly inspiring but I haven’t found anything that lives up to the reputation it has yet.
I read one book per day for all of alex verus series and finished the entire thing in two weeks. Granted each book is pretty small, but that’s the longest series I read in such a short amount of time.
For a single book, I read oathbringer which is like 450k words, in a single 24 to 30 hour binge. I didn’t sleep, I was reading while eating and what not.
I re-read the first Harry Potter when i was 16. I started at 22:00 because i couldnt sleep, finished it at 05:00 when my mom woke up.
I read the entirety of Project Hail Mary in a single setting. Started off with a normal bit of background music, then decided to listen to the entirety of Everywhere at the End of Time. Good decision, and good book.
The last Harry Potter book took me one rainy Saturday and Sunday night. I don’t think I even went to bed that weekend. Just dosed off on the sofa. Coffee kept me going that time. I never matched that pace again in the past 16 years but I do read quite a few books within 1-2 weeks. Others take me years of on-and-off reading to finish.
i mean it’s not much but i read the twilight series in 3 days when i was in high school 😅 past that usually the fastest i read a single book is 10 hours or so